On the hunt for where to report unsolicited sales calls to cell phones, which is apparently not only against California law, but has been against federal law since the 1991 Telemarketing Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), I came across this snippet of California Civil Code, which makes me QUITE happy:

California Civil Code 1770 states that the following unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices undertaken by any person in a transaction intended to result or which results in the sale or lease of goods or services to any consumer are unlawful:

(22) (A) Disseminating an unsolicited prerecorded message by telephone without an unrecorded, natural voice first informing the person answering the telephone of the name of the caller or the organization being represented, and either the address or the telephone number of the caller, and without obtaining the consent of that person to listen to the prerecorded message.

When you consider that all of the “Warranty” phone calls start with a pre-recorded message that tell you to press a number to speak with a representative…now to just figure out where/how to report violators.

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