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==What can you do to prevent unsolicited phone calls, email, faxes, and mail?== | ==What can you do to prevent unsolicited phone calls, email, faxes, and mail?== | ||
Sometimes after making a phone, internet, or mail order purchase, you may find yourself on various mailing and phone lists, and end up receiving piles of brochures, advertisements and sample products, and endless phone calls and emails from telemarketers and others. The emails may be phishing scams. And they often have spyware and malware that will harm your computer and steal your personal information and identity. To avoid this flood of junk mail (or spam) and calls, and the dangers they pose, here’s what you can do: | Sometimes after making a phone, internet, or mail order purchase, you may find yourself on various mailing and phone lists, and end up receiving piles of brochures, advertisements and sample products, and endless phone calls and emails from telemarketers and others. The emails may be phishing scams. And they often have spyware and malware that will harm your computer and steal your personal information and identity. To avoid this flood of junk mail (or spam) and calls, and the dangers they pose, here’s what you can do: | ||
*Contact the Canadian Marketing Association: See the Canadian Marketing Association's website at www.the-cma.org and click on the “For Consumers” link to find their voluntary Do Not Contact Service". Follow the registration instructions to have your name deleted from member phone and mailing marketing lists. This won’t eliminate the problem but it can greatly reduce the amount of unsolicited calls and mail you receive. You’ll be placed on their “Do Not Call” list for three years. | *'''Contact the Canadian Marketing Association:''' See the Canadian Marketing Association's website at [http://www.the-cma.org www.the-cma.org] and click on the “For Consumers” link to find their voluntary [http://www.the-cma.org/consumers/do-not-contact Do Not Contact Service]". Follow the registration instructions to have your name deleted from member phone and mailing marketing lists. This won’t eliminate the problem but it can greatly reduce the amount of unsolicited calls and mail you receive. You’ll be placed on their “Do Not Call” list for three years. | ||
*Register with the National Do Not Call List: The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission – or CRTC – requires that telemarketers maintain “Do Not Call” lists and respect such requests for three years. Telemarketers must also issue a unique registration number for each “Do Not Call” request, so keep the number as proof of your request. See https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca to register with the National Do Not Call List. But the CRTC has no control of businesses and people outside Canada, and they often ignore the list and continue to call. | |||
*Block the number that is calling you if you have that feature on your phone. But telemarketers can constantly change their calling number so even if you block them, they keep getting through. | *'''Register with the National Do Not Call List:''' The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission – or CRTC – requires that telemarketers maintain “Do Not Call” lists and respect such requests for three years. Telemarketers must also issue a unique registration number for each “Do Not Call” request, so keep the number as proof of your request. See https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca to register with the National Do Not Call List. But the CRTC has no control of businesses and people outside Canada, and they often ignore the list and continue to call. | ||
*'''Block the number that is calling you''' if you have that feature on your phone. But telemarketers can constantly change their calling number so even if you block them, they keep getting through. | |||
==Canada’s new anti-spam law starts July 1, 2014== | ==Canada’s new anti-spam law starts July 1, 2014== | ||
