...phone to an unknown telemarketer. - When considering an extended service contract or accepting any other type of telephone solicitation, insist on getting a contract in which all terms and conditions are clearly explained before signing up or providing...

...Association and then asks for a donation. Sheriff Hunt warned that the association does not raise money through telephone solicitations. Anyone who receives a call such as that should hang up and call Ed Brown at the South Carolina Secretary of...

...Better Business Bureau offers this advice when you are solicited by police and fire organizations: Be leery of telephone solicitations. Ask for written materials describing the group's programs and finances to find out whether it's legitimate...

...other direct marketers. The DMA also runs a telephone preference service, which helps decrease the number of telephone solicitations. You can follow the same procedure as with the mail name-removal service, but send the note to Telephone...

...titled "Ask Us," omitted some important information that may be valuable to your readers. In most cases, telephone solicitations are the result of an existing relationship the consumer has established with an organization. In other instances...

...Giving it to someone you don't know is an invitation to have it sold to any mailing list, e-mail list, telephone solicitation list and other form of personal intrusion you can imagine. It's like painting a big red target on your backside...

...card number only to a reputable firm that you're sure is on the line," added Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America in Washington, D.C. "Never purchase from a cold telephone solicitation."

...few years ago, we were blessed with a telephone registry to where we could add our telephone numbers to avoid telephone solicitations. This, in turn, gave us a long-needed respite from all those annoying calls at the most inopportune times...

...many calls I didn't want to deal with. Yes, I discovered, despite a long history of snarling hostility with telephone solicitations, not to mention my participation in a variety of Do-Not-Call listings services, my number still gets automatically...

...week not to revisit the legality of the government's "do not call" registry designed to prevent unwanted telephone solicitation. Several judges around the country had arrogantly tried to block the wildly popular, congressionally approved...