Mass. telemarketers aren’t taking no for an answer
Massachusetts residents are getting a little tired of hearing their Hotline Bling.
Last year, Mass. consumers filed a record number of complaints about telemarketers ignoring rules, The Boston Globe reports. In all, 99,215 consumers said that they still get calls from companies peddling their goods, despite adding their phone numbers to the Federal Trade Commission “do-not-call’’ registry.
Prerecorded telemarketing calls were prohibited in 2009, but across the country, a total of 3.6 million complaints were filed with the FTC about these “robocalls’’ and other persistent vendors, according to the Globe.
The Bay State had 1,471 complaints per 100,000 residents over the past year – the fourth highest rate in the country, the Globe reports. Only Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey had higher rates.
Read the full story at the Globe.
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