Telemarketing, Phone Scam Boom: Antitrust Initiates Investigation on 7 Call Centers (and Part of a Petition to Say Enough)

Despite the existence of the Registry of Oppositions, the phenomenon of the "telestalking" affects millions of citizens. Meanwhile, the "Agcom" has approved a measure that obliges operators to block unwanted "spoofing" calls.

The Competition and Market Authority has launched, thanks also to the investigative activity carried out by the Guardia di Finanza, seven investigations against call center companies that promote...

Instructor vis-à-vis seven call centre companies (ANSA)

The Antitrust initiates an investigation for incorrect telemarketing: the call centers involved would have contacted the consumers proposing the activation of contracts of energy and telephony, based on misleading information about the identity of the caller, the object of the caller's call, the economic convenience of the commercial offers proposed. The authority, also thanks to the investigative activity carried out by the GDF, has initiated s…