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"Five years ago, the federal government promised an answer for unwanted telemarketing calls with the \"Do not call list.\" Despite the new law, the calls did not stop for some.Beverly Oliver is just one of the many people 16 WAPT's Stephanie Maxwell spoke to who said they still received the unwanted calls, even though they have signed up for the list.\"I'll ask them how they got my number and I'll tell them, 'Please don't call me again,'\" Oliver said.Billy Howard is a managing partner for Morgan &amp; Morgan law firm. Maxwell asked him how telemarketers are getting around the list.\"That's like asking, 'How are people still breaking the law today?' These guys just don't care,\" Howard said.Howard's firm is helping clients strike back against the unwanted calls.\"Companies can call today 1.5 million times in one day. For a mere $1,000, you can get a robo dialer, plug it up to your computer and call 10,000 people a day,\" Howard said.Maxwell reported receiving calls at home and at work from telemarketers selling a funeral plan and a security system. She said she once told the telemarketer not to call her again. Another time she just hung up, even though she could have pressed a number to opt-out. Will Maxon, who enforces \"Do not call list\" through the Federal Trade Commission, said those who receive unwanted calls should not press any numbers on their phone.\"That lets them essentially know they've got live bait there and they're going to call you more and sell your phone number to other people, and those people are going to call you because people will pay money just to get lists of active working phone numbers where people answer the phone,\" Maxon said.Howard said it goes both ways.\"You do run a little bit of a risk when you pick up the phone, but I think the risk that you run if you don't is that the calls are going to continue,\" Howard said.What not many know is that people all over the country are cashing in because of the violations. For every unsolicited call or text message, you could get $500 to $1,500.\"I can tell you one of my latest clients bought a new car. He owed no money to anybody. He was very poor. He got a few hundred phone calls to his cellphone,\" Howard said.Experts said the companies keep calling despite the fines because few people know they can get money.Howard advises those who are getting unwanted calls from telemarketers to start a call log and ask for the name of the company and address. Then ask them to stop calling. Document when they call and if they don't, he said. Save or record messages as well, Howard said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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