Around three-quarters of all Americans have signed up for the National Do Not Call Registry in a bid to escape the bane of telemarketing harassment.
But that doesn't stop hordes of unscrupulous firms from ignoring the list (and, in doing so, breaking the law) or hundreds of organizations who are exempted from the rules and permitted to call you whenever they want.
And usually, whenever they want is whenever you don't want like dinner time or when the next episode of your favorite TV series is about to start.
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