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Article: How you can can texted spam
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- April 13, 2008
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KEVIN DeMARRAIS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
04-13-2008
How you can can texted spam
KEVIN DeMARRAIS
Date: 04-13-2008, Sunday
Section: BUSINESS
Edtion: All Editions
Column: YOUR MONEY'S WORTH
Like most of the 148 million consumers who signed up for the Do Not Call list a few years back, I rarely get unsolicited calls to my home telephone.
But my wife has recently been receiving telemarketing calls as well as text messages on her cellphone, and several readers report having the same experience.
Unfortunately, regulators don't make it easy to deal with this problem.
Under federal law, autodialed calls to cellphones are prohibited, even if the cellphone is not registered on the Do Not Call list.
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