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 ...

“Telemarketers” may be summer TV’s oddest thrill ride. Co-director Sam Lipman-Stern begins the three-part docuseries, which launches August 13 on HBO, in retrospect. He’s looking back at the footage ...

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 ...

Our love affair with true crime links to their duality as triggering devices and a weird type of comfort. When the crime involves murder, we double-check that our doors are locked and maybe keep a ...

No more missed calls from Spam Risk. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and a task force made up of 101 state and federal law enforcement agencies are cracking down on robocalls and telemarketing scams ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Travis Gettys is a senior editor for Raw Story based in northern Kentucky. He previously worked as a web editor for WLWT-TV and a contributing writer for the Kentucky Enquirer, and he also wrote for ...