Do Not Call List

The federal government set up the National Do Not Call Registry in the early 2000s to prevent telemarketers from calling people who did not want to receive calls. To sign up, enter your phone number at www.donotcall.gov -- it's now a permanent list, so once you enter your number on the do not call list, the number stays there permanently.

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Unwanted Mortgage And Credit Solicitations

According to the website PrivacyRights.org, when the Fair Credit Reporting Act was amended in 1996, it required that credit reporting bureaus provide consumers with the ability to opt out of having their names and addresses sold to credit grantors for marketing solicitations. If you don't want your personal information sold, and you'd like to cut down on the number of junk mail solicitations you receive, here's the number you can call.

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