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The first telemarketers charged with transmitting false Caller IDs (a process known as caller ID spoofing) to consumers were fined and found liable for $530,000 in damages.

Those ceaseless, computer-generated calls that try to get you to sign up for some must-have extended auto warranty have become more than just annoying.

An interesting initiative has been started by city officials in North Olmsted, OH. Starting Monday April 14th, a "Do Not Knock"law, in the same spirit of the "Do Not Call" registry, takes effect. The city officials are giving residents a chance to fend off unwanted door-to-door salespeople.

Police say a company is running a telemarketing scam. The telemarketer called at least one person in Sioux City, IA claiming to be raising money for North High's athletics. They're not. In fact, North High officials told police that the school hasn't asked anyone to solicit money for the athletics program.

Raleigh, NC -- The Attorney General's office warns that scammers are using robo calls that promise better rates on credit cards to try to steal identity and run up charges in victims' names.

Metro Vancouver businesses are being warned about a heartless telemarketing scam that claims donations will provide books for terminally ill children.

The man prosecutors believe was the moving force behind a Kingston-based telemarketing scheme that cheated aging Americans out of their life savings has pleaded guilty to being a party to the fraud conspiracy.

A national Do Not Call list to be rolled out this year is designed to limit the number of calls that annoy consumers but not to damage the business of telemarketing, a CRTC official said Wednesday.

The Clinton campaign has complained about them. So has Mitt Romney. Plenty of voters have vented, too. Those sometimes nasty and annoying recorded political phone calls known as "robo-calls" can drive people nuts — and states are trying to crack down on them.

Missouri Judge signed the order last week against Telelytics (doing business as Debt Solutions); its owner Scott Kaplan; and four other defendants. It requires them to pay $152,000 to the state and stop calling consumers on the state No Call list.

USA Today has an interesting article on political robo-calls. Federal courts have not ruled whether limits on robo-calls violate the First Amendment, which grants broad protection to political and religious speech. That means the rules against robo-calls that are now in place in 19 states may be unconstitutional.

The Clinton campaign is accusing the Obama campaign of violating state law by placing automated phone calls to numbers on the Do Not Call list.

Responding to numerous complaints she has received about online search engines that list not only names, addresses and telephone numbers but also people's ages, places of work and other personal data, Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell has announced that her Administration will develop a legislative package to help safeguard on-line privacy.

Bell Canada will operate the National Do Not Call List.

Eddie Culp, 51, was spoofed recently. He was taking his final exam to be a radiological technician when his phone started buzzing. Culp said he looked at his phone, and saw that it was his home number.