Telemarketing is the process of selling goods and services over the telephone. It has been used to successfully market a variety of products ranging from insurance to newspapers to industrial equipment, and it has the potential for selling virtually...

Telemarketing is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson uses the telephone to solicit prospective customers to buy products or services, either over the phone or through a subsequent face to face or Web conferencing appointment scheduled...

As a former mortgage broker, Adryenn Ashley thought she knew what to expect when she refinanced her house in March. Yet Ashley was unprepared for one twist she encountered: A barrage of phone calls and e-mails from rival lenders vying to sell her a better...

Authorities arrested more than 30 suspects and broke up a phony telemarketing scheme used to allegedly bilk millions of dollars from American and Canadian senior citizens, police said Tuesday.The suspects, detained in the Montreal area, took in as much as $11 million a year since...

An e-mail warning consumers that cell phone numbers will soon be released to telemarketers is making the rounds again, and government officials have a key detail they'd like to add: it's totally bogus.The e-mails say that recipients must add their cell phone numbers to the...

Almost 25 million phone numbers were added to the federal government's Do Not Call list in fiscal 2006, demonstrating that more and more Americans don't want their dinners disturbed by telemarketers.The national Do Not Call registry had 132 million phone numbers as of September 2006,...