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Register your phone number to report stop or block unwanted, annoying,telemarketing, spam calls, robocalls to the FTC.
Find out how to file complaints about scam calls and texts and telemarketers. Learn how to reduce sales calls through the National Do Not Call Registry.
The Do Not Call Registry stops unwanted sales calls — live calls or robocalls — from real companies that follow the law. The Registry is a list that tells registered telemarketers what numbers not to call — it doesn’t block calls.
The FTC takes aggressive legal action to make sure telemarketers abide by the Do Not Call Registry. To date, the Commission has brought 151 enforcement actions against companies and telemarketers for Do Not Call, robocall, spoofed caller ID, and assisting and facilitating violations.
Not all robocalls are illegal. There are several factors to consider: the technology used to make the call, whether the call is to a landline or a mobile number, whether the content of the call is telemarketing, and whether the called number is on the National Do Not Call Registry.
Since 2003, Americans have been able to opt out of receiving most telemarketing calls by putting their phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry, and millions of them have done so.
Call time restrictions: Calls are restricted to the hours of 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. (local time of the person being called). Calling outside of these hours violates FCC guidelines. Do-Not-Call requests: If a consumer asks to be placed on your company’s internal Do-Not-Call list, you must honor this request immediately and refrain from calling them ...