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The Telecom Digest for July 18, 2013
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Telemarketers call in reinforcements as they ignore do-not-call list (Monty Solomon)

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Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 01:39:12 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Telemarketers call in reinforcements as they ignore do-not-call  list
Message-ID: <p06240835ce0bde19c7be@[10.0.1.9]>

Telemarketers call in reinforcements as they ignore do-not-call list

Complaints by those in the federal Do Not Call Registry are on the 
rise as telemarketers use robocalls and 'spoofing.'

By David Lazarus
July 15, 2013

Dan Yeh has been on the federal government's Do Not Call Registry for 
years. And for a while, it seemed like the leave-me-alone system 
worked just fine.

Not anymore.

"There's been a real surge recently," Yeh, 72, told me. "I've been 
getting five or six calls a day, at all hours, seven days a week."

The Huntington Beach resident isn't alone. I've heard similar 
complaints from dozens of other people.

Regardless of having registered a phone line with the Federal Trade 
Commission as a telemarketer-free zone, a growing number of consumers 
are saying that some businesses are ignoring their stated preference 
and calling anyway.

A particular annoyance: automated robocalls that get you on the line 
before looping in a human telemarketer. Such calls frequently use 
"spoofed" lines that hide their origin or make it look as if the call 
is from someone you know.

...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus-20130716,0,6060357,full.column






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