While it may not feel like it, the number of robocalls has dropped below its peak in 2019. In March 2021, there were nearly 5 billion robocalls. Last month, there were 3.9 billion calls, according to ...
The phone rings, and as soon as you say hello, the person on the other end starts babbling about saving money on car insurance. Don’t say anything! They could be recording your voice, which they’ll ...
NEW YORK (PIX11) – Some telemarketers are targeting phone numbers on the national “Do Not Call” registry because people are more likely to pick up, experts said. The registry currently has 221 million ...
Telemarketers targeting New Jersey residents soon will be required to provide the telephone numbers of the people on whose behalf their calls are being made. And they must do so within the first 30 ...
Despite the Do Not Call Registry, telemarketers are back and they know where to reach you: on your mobile phone. Here's how to keep them at bay I know I’m not the only one who hates telemarketers. For ...
In 2001, Sam Lipman-Stern was a teenage high school dropout working at Civic Development Group (CDG), a telemarketing company that operated out of central New Jersey. He’d developed a love for film ...
A three-part HBO docuseries that was 20 years in the making vows to “expose the crooked American telemarketing industry from within.” Titled simply “Telemarketers,” the doc comes from sources who seem ...
Once again the Federal Trade Commission is trying to debunk e-mails warning cell phone users to sign up for the Do Not Call Registry or face calls from telemarketers. The e-mail warnings are a ...
New Jersey residents may no longer have to yell "serenity now" when answering a phone call from a telemarketer. You've got to read the bill introduced by Republican state Sen. Jon Bramnick, which ...
They spent years working the phones as telemarketers in the rowdy boiler room at New Brunswick’s Civic Development Group. Now Sam Lipman-Stern and Patrick J. Pespas are celebrating their critical ...
Verizon Wireless said today it has settled a lawsuit it filed last month against a telemarketing company that was using an autodialing device to call Verizon customers and employees to advertise a ...