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Saturday, October 20, 2012

National Do-Not-Call list Hits 217 Million Phone Numbers, FTC Wants To Stop Illegal Robocalls

The Federal Trade Commission says more than 217 million phone numbers are now on the national Do Not Call Registry. Today, the agency is hosting a public summit to address the issue of illegal prerecorded telemarketing calls, or "robocalls," which they have received a large numbers of consumer complaints about over the past year, even though robocalls have been illegal since 2009. 

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3 comments:

Daddio said...

Most of the robocalls I've been getting these days have been political.

The FTC has no jurisdiction over those.

Anonymous said...

I still get some calls and when I ask, they claim for whatever reason they are exempt from the rules.

Anonymous said...

Good luck with that!