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How To Sign Up
No-Call for the Understanding the Kansas No Call Act
List You can greatly reduce the number of unwanted Telemarketers are prohibited from using no-
Signing up your home or cell phone number for calls to your home or cell phone by signing up for call list information for any purpose other than
the no-call list is quick, easy and free the no-call list. removing names from their call list.
According to Kansas Law, the no-call list must Placing your phone number on the no-call list
1. Call toll-free 1-888-382-1222
be used any person or business that intends to will help eliminate unwanted calls, but there are a
(or 1-866-290-4236 for TTY
call Kansas residents for any of the following few exceptions to the law:
2. Sign up online at purposes:
♦ Telemarketing laws are aimed at companies trying
www.donotcall.gov
Soliciting the sale of property or to sell you something and do not apply to calls for
Opting Out of Pre-Approved services charitable organizations, political candidates or non-
profit issues.
Soliciting the extension of credit for
Credit Card Solicitations ♦ A company may still call you if you have given
property or services
them authorization or done business with the
If you are not in the market for a new credit card Obtaining information that may be company within the past 36 months.
or insurance policy, you may sign up to opt out of used for the first three purposes.
these pre-screened mail offers for either five years ♦ Business numbers are exempt from the Kansas
After you register, your phone number will show No-Call Act.
or on a permanent basis.
up on the list the next day. Telemarketers have up ♦ Every time a phone number changes ownership,
To stop prescreened solicitations based on lists to 31 days to remove your number from their call it is removed from the no-call list. If you receive a new
from the major consumer reporting companies, list. phone number, you will need to register that number.
call toll-free 1-888-5-OPTOUT (1-888-567-
8688, TTD 1-877-730-4105) or visit www.
optoutprescreen.com Direct Mail and Email Opt-Out Registry
This service requires you to provide certain To receive less national advertising mail, you can register for the Direct Marketing Association’s
personal information, including your telephone (DMA’s) Mail Preference Service for both postal and electronic mail. The DMA is a national,
number, name, Social Security number and date private marketing association that requires its members to use their name-removal service and
of birth. This information is kept confidential and
encourages all direct mail companies to use the list.
used only to process your opt-out request. To sign up instantly online, visit
You may also send a letter requesting your name
Removing your name from prescreened lists has www.dmaconsumers.org/
and email removal
no effect on your ability to apply for or obtain consumerassistance.html
(along with a check or money order for $1) to:
credit or insurance. MAIL PREFERENCE SERVICE (MPS)
The same telephone number and web site can be P.O. Box 282
used to opt back in for these offers. Carmel, NY 10512
REDUCE
TELEMARKETING
Dear Kansans, ConsumerTips: & JUNK MAIL
Many of you have Follow these tips to greatly reduce the amount of
expressed frustration junk mail and telemarketing calls you receive:
with the excess ♦ Avoid giving out your phone number unless
junk mail and absolutely necessary.
telemarketing phone
calls you receive to ♦ Register with the National Do Not Call
your home. Registry.
♦ Ask telemarketers who call you to put your
This brochure contains information for number on their “do not call” list.
taking your name off marketing lists
used by telemarketers and direct mail ♦ Get an unlisted number.
companies. While you won’t be able to ♦ Screen calls with your answering machine,
stop all commercial mail and unknown many telemarketers hang up if they reach a
callers, following these steps will machine.
greatly reduce the amount of unwanted
solicitations you receive. ♦ Register with the Direct Marketing
Association’s Mail Preference Service.
Remember to always be careful providing ♦ Opt out of pre-approved credit offers by calling Kansas No-Call Act
personal information over the phone 1-888-5-OPT-OUT
and by mail to people you don’t know.
Removing your name from marketing ♦ Tell banks, magazines and charities that you Removing Your Name
lists is one step you can take today to help don’t want them to share your name and address From Marketing Lists
protect yourself from potential scams. with other businesses or charities.
♦ Ask your local phone company to not publish
Sincerely, your address. Opting Out of
Pre-Approved Credit
Consumer Protection/Antitrust Division Solicitations
Steve Six 120 SW 10th Avenue, 2nd Floor
Provided by
Topeka, KS 66612-1597 Kansas Attorney General
(785) 296-3751 or 1-800-432-2310
www.ksag.org
