January 9, 2003
Charities Exempted From Plan for U.S. 'Do Not Call' List
The Federal Trade Commission has proposed exempting charities from a program that would prohibit telemarketers from calling consumers who sign on to a national registry.
Under the proposal, consumers would be able to contact a national hotline to have their names and phone numbers placed on a "do not call" list. Any telemarketer who phoned people on that list would be subject to fines of as much as $11,000 per violation. But nonprofit organizations and their commercial fund raisers
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