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A California telemarketer hawking memberships to an online dating service that routinely contacted Missourians on the state No Call list pays $15,000 to the state and and will have to comply with Missouri’s No Call law in the future.

A telemarketer has been arrested after being caught stealing and using credit card numbers.

More than a dozen elderly victims will receive part of $200,000 in restitution from a man who pleaded guilty today of managing a telemarketing lottery scam.

Consumers who fail to re-register for the national Do Not Call list may start getting interrupted again by telemarketers next year. Millions of phone numbers will be dropped from the popular program starting in June, when the registry reaches its five-year anniversary.

DirecTV calls customers on the Do Not Call list with a pre-recorded message asking them to hear their sales pitch anyway.

Telemarketers are noticed using speech recognition and text-to-speech engines to make completely self-sufficient robo-calls. Soon with the help of this sophisticated text-to-speech synthesizer a robotic Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton, or any celebrity might call your house.

Class-action lawsuits filed by area florists and consumers against an out-of-town telemarketing firm using local names and phone numbers to snare business away from legitimate local businesses have claimed a major victory. They have driven a New Jersey telemarketer out of business.

Congressman Mike Doyle (PA-14) announced Monday that he is introducing legislation to make the federal "Do Not Call" list permanent.

Florida Agriculture and Consumer Services Commissioner Charles H. Bronson today announced that he has taken legal action against a Central Florida company for violating Florida's "Do Not Call" law.

The Pima County Sheriff's Department has issued a warning: Watch out for scam artists posing as a telemarketer for the Sheriff's Department or the Fraternal Order of Police.

Did you know the infamous Do Not Call list has a few loopholes that some companies are starting to exploit? The good news though is that you can stop them.

Tuesday, August 21 is the next deadline to register for the state’s Do Not Call list announced Indiana Attorney General Steve Carter. Phone numbers placed on the list by midnight EDT Tuesday will begin receiving benefits of the law starting October 1, 2007.

A couple dozen Pennsylvania state lawmakers want to lump politicians and political parties in with telemarketers on the state's Do Not Call list, a move that would outlaw unsolicited campaign calls.

When the registry was first developed, FTC proposed a maximum annual fee per telemarketer of $3,000. However, by the time the Commission made the registry available in 2003, the cost for access was $7,375. In 2006 the FTC raised the rate to $17,050, a 263 percent increase in four years.

More than 301,000 home and cell phone numbers were re-registered between 10 a.m. on Wednesday and 4 p.m. on Thursday, said Nils Frederiksen, a spokesman for Attorney General Tom Corbett.