Illinois-based Telemarketer to Pay $500,000 Civil Penalty for Thwarting Consumers’ Requests to be Placed On Its Clients’ Do Not Call Lists

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–December 16, 2011. An Illinois-based telemarketing firm will pay $500,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it interfered with consumers’ requests to be placed on company-specific do not call lists and transmitted deceptive Caller ID names.

As part of its efforts to prevent unwanted telemarketing calls, the FTC alleged that Americall Group, Inc. violated the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule.

“When it comes to the Do Not Call provisions, compliance is not…