Tired of Unwanted Sales Phone Calls?Catherine J. Frompovich Well, there is a way that readers can stop such annoying phone calls, even though it may take up to a month. However, it definitely is worth the effort. Heres how to go about stopping unwanted sales phone calls. The Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information website offers a couple of ways to stop landline and mobile (cell) phone numbers from being accessed by what many folks consider nuisance calls. Heres how, according to the Do Not Call Registry Heres how to report phone scams https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0076-phone-scams and to check out possible charity scams https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0011-charity-scams. Telemarketers, who make sales pitches via text messages for which the receiving phone number is charged thereby running up monthly charges for unsuspecting consumers, are business opportunities. See this http://www.txt180.com/ for how its done. However, effective October 16, 2013 telemarketing laws changed, according to Sergei Lemberg of Lemberg and Associates: It used to be that by virtue of giving [the telemarketers] your number, that was enough to get robo-dialed. Now telemarketers need specific consent. [1] Perhaps, it would be helpful to read Telemarketing laws change tomorrow: Heres what you need to know. Have you checked your monthly phone bills recently? Catherine J Frompovich (website) is a retired natural nutritionist who earned advanced degrees in Nutrition and Holistic Health Sciences, Certification in Orthomolecular Theory and Practice plus Paralegal Studies.Her work has been published in national and airline magazines since the early 1980s. Catherine authored numerous books on health issues along with co-authoring papers and monographs with physicians, nurses, and holistic healthcare professionals. She has been a consumer healthcare researcher 35 years and counting. Catherines latest book,published October 4, 2013, is Vaccination Voodoo, What YOU Dont Know About Vaccines, available on Amazon.com. Her 2012 bookA Cancer Answer, Holistic BREAST Cancer Management, A Guide to Effective Non-Toxic Treatments, is available on Amazon.com and as a Kindle eBook. Two of Catherines more recent books on Amazon.com are Our Chemical Lives And The Hijacking Of Our DNA, A Probe Into Whats Probably Making Us Sick (2009) and Lord, How Can I Make It Through Grieving My Loss, An Inspirational Guide Through the Grieving Process(2008). 