Collaborate Disseminate
According to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of 2019 were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls. Continue reading Robocalls now flooding US phones with 200m calls per day
Lenny is a decade-old chatbot designed to troll telemarketers that has developed a cult following online. It’s remarkably convincing, but is it actually effective? Continue reading The Story of Lenny, the Internet’s Favorite Telemarketing Troll
Google is reportedly adding a new feature to its phone app that will breathe a sigh of relief to beleaguered phone users everywhere: Built-in screening for nuisance callers. Continue reading Your Google phone will soon screen nuisance calls
Close to a million records belonging to senior citizens in the US were exposed – and since deleted – but included details such as health insurance providers and medical issues Continue reading Unsecured database exposed diabetics’ sensitive data
Credit card data and personal information in the form of recorded telephone sales pitches and sales confirmations were leaked online by telemarketer. Continue reading Telemarketing Firm Leaks 400,000 Recorded Calls
This is the first big telemarketing abuse case in the US that has gone in front of a jury. The jury was not impressed with the cold callers. Continue reading Cold callers in the US found guilty of 99 MILLION illegal calls
As practically everyone with a phone knows, a veritable plague of automated telemarketing calls has spread across the land. Continue reading Sun of a gun: a solar energy “Do Not Call” violator is brought to justice