Tag: ROBOCALLS

Perhaps calling Aaron Titus a hero is a bit overzealous. But it's hard for us to think of another word when describing this Maryland man, who recently got some well-deserved revenge on his local school board. At 4:30 one recent morning, Titus received a robocall, courtesy of the board, to inform him that schools would be opening two hours late. (Titus claims that he was already made aware of the ...

It's debatable whether the CAN-SPAM act of 2003 really has had any impact on the volume of unwanted e-mails received -- our inboxes are as cluttered as ever. So, forgive us if we weren't exactly hopeful when the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) effectively made robocalls, automated messages from political parties and other unwanteds, illegal a few months ago. But, there is hope, with the FTC filing ...

Bothersome and intrusive robocalls, particularly of the auto warranty variety, have become such an annoyance that phone wielders everywhere, including politicians, have been speaking out and fighting back against automated telemarketers. Heeding the public's call for action, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reportedly amended its one-year-old Telemarketer Sales Rule to completely outlaw ...

Telemarketers-turned-inventors from the United Kingdom have started shipping TrueCall (£99.99), a device that acts as an automated secretary on your land line, either forwarding trusted numbers to your phone or answering untrusted numbers with an automated message and shooing them away. When an unrecognized number dials in, TrueCall asks them who they are and then rings you asking whether or ...