Here’s How Telemarketers Keep Getting Your Number

Every time your phone rings, there's a decent chance it's a telemarketer calling. How do telemarketers get your phone number, and what can you do about it?
Yahoo

The Story Behind HBO's Telemarketers —and How It Exposes a Billion-Dollar Scam

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 2001, Sam Lipman-Stern was a teenage high school dropout working at Civic Development Group (CDG), a telemarketing company that ...
Marketplace

When telemarketers keep 90% of donations

We’re watching the documentary series “Telemarketers” in October. The three-part doc follows a whistleblower investigation that spans nearly two decades, as former call center employees learn their ...
Marketplace

Exploiting our human need for connection

We’re watching the documentary series “Telemarketers” in October. The three-part doc follows a whistleblower investigation that spans nearly two decades, as former call center employees learn their ...
KTVU

'Seinfeld' bill would require telemarketers to provide their name, phone number

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 ...
WMUR

Man uses telemarketer settlement money to open bar called 'The Wrong Number'

FACILITATE RELOCATION. WHEN ONE WINSTON-SALEM MAN ON THE DO NOT CALL LIST TELLS TELEMARKETER THAT THEY HAVE THE WRONG NUMBER, HE MEANS IT. LINDSAY: HE SURE DOES. IN FACT, HE IS USING SETTLEMENT MONEY ...