Regulations protecting people from telemarketing scams now cover tech support scams, which have cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars in recent years. In a 4-1 vote, the Federal Trade ...

Phone scams are no longer a minor nuisance - they have become one of the most financially devastating crimes targeting ...

State consumer advocates are warning of a telemarketing scam in which seniors are urged to pay $247 for, ironically, a telemarketing protection plan. The bogus Senior Advisory Council's salesmen often ...

Recent FTC regulations targeting spam calls have reduced complaints about them by over 50 percent, the agency says. Recent FTC regulations targeting spam calls have reduced complaints about them by ...

The amended Rule now more broadly prohibits misrepresentation of goods and services during B2B telemarketing calls. The FTC has also amended the Rule to require enhanced recordkeeping practices for ...

The FTC sued the company in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, alleging that Med Provisions sold bogus discount drug plans, mostly to elderly Americans. Telemarketers promised consumers they could save ...

Illegal telemarketing calls were the top consumer complaint in Missouri in 2025, with over 33,600 reports to the No-Call Unit ...

Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal is moving ahead with new legislative efforts to combat telemarketing scams that have raised millions of dollars while pretending to represent political and ...

PHOENIX — A settlement has been reached to reimburse dozens of Valley citizens that were defrauded by a fake telemarketing company. Last year, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office began receiving ...

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 ...