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F.M.I. (Former Meal Interrupter) who used to work at one of "the largest phone survey companies in the country," is sharing the best technique at Consumerist.com for assuring that the survey people will stop calling you. Asking them to stop calling doesn't cut it. Saying "no" just gets you listed as a "soft refusal" and will result in more call backs.

Elderly people across the U.S. are being inundated and confused by calls from discount prescription providers about the Medicare prescription drug benefit plan. And a local woman even wound up giving out her checking account number.

New York State Police Acting Superintendent Preston L. Felton advises residents that neither the state police nor any agency authorized by it solicits donations from the public.

Responding to complaints about automatic calls, also known as "robo-calls," the Oregon Senate on Friday advanced legislation that would free more callers from getting those recorded messages - and enact stricter rules for those who make the calls.

The thieves operated from small offices in Toronto and hangar-size rooms in India. Every night, working from lists of names and phone numbers, they called World War II veterans, retired schoolteachers and thousands of other elderly Americans and posed as government and insurance workers updating their files.

Tennessee Regulatory Authority directors have approved a $5,000 settlement with a California telemarketer over nine (9) complaints that the company violated the state’s Do-Not-Call telephone solicitations law in January.

Three Connecticut companies have been sued for violating the state's do-not-call statute because they were unwilling to acknowledge and address the alleged infringement, according to the state's Department of Consumer Protection.

A scammer, who boasted that consumers could earn a six-figure income if they purchased and used his $10,000 "asset protection service" business program, is banned for life from telemarketing and from selling any type of business program in the future.

Democratic Dialing, a political telemarketing company in Davis, California, is offering an easy way for anyone to avoid receiving their political robocalls.

Employees at the DialAmerica call center downtown yesterday learned that all 110 would lose their jobs. DialAmerica Marketing Inc.’s office in the Oppenheim Building had been a survivor in the region’s once-thriving outbound call center industry. But the industry’s nationwide troubles, combined with one major client’s cutbacks, doomed the local site.

Australia -- More than 250,000 people have already signed up to the Government's Do Not Call Register since it opened Thursday. The Australian Communications and Media Authority says about 150 people are registering online every minute.

Bank of America has been caught by a consumer making hundreds of solicitation calls to a single telephone, many of them hangups.

Ryan Swanberg sees himself as a crusader, a little guy "exacting justice" on businesses he claims violate the law with their incessant telemarketing and debt-collecting calls.

You may have signed up for the national do not call list, but that doesn't mean telemarketers won't find their way back into your home.

People can now start signing up for the national Do Not Call Register to stop telemarketers ringing.