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Registering a business name seems to have much the same effect, so I'm not sure it's merely DUNS. Similarly my wife at some point had to register some kind of
by Tloewald 14y ago
Registering a business name seems to have much the same effect, so I'm not sure it's merely DUNS.
Similarly my wife at some point had to register some kind of entity to get reimbursed for speaking at a conference and immediately unleashed a torrent of spam. (Correction — my wife's torrent of spam was from DUNS :-)). But hey, mine was just a normal business name registration, and i got the same result.
The US is plagued with cold-calling spammers — just part of the American Experience.
- davidjgraph 14y agoI'm not in the US, I'm in the UK. Cold calling is against the law to TPS registered phone numbers and very rarely happens. DUNS is the main exception in the time I've been in business.
- Tloewald 14y agoIt's supposed to be against the law in the US, especially to cell phones, but it's still horribly common,
- UnoriginalGuy 14y agoIf it is against the law but nobody enforces the law then it is a meaningless law. In the UK they rarely enforce it but often enough so companies think twice. They also tell the telephone networks hosting the spam callers to kick them off.
- eli 14y agoEnforcing a US law against VoIP scam artists in other countries is not trivial.