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Consider yourself lucky if you haven't received a phone call from a scammer claiming to be from "Windows support" or "Telstra support."

The Do Not Call regulations have again served their purpose, this time with Telco Service Holdings being issued with a formal warning after breaching the rules according to the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

Telemarketers are slowly running out of people to call, with a total of nine million numbers now listed on the Do Not Call Register.

Pesky telemarketers can now be held at bay for even longer, with the Australian Government extending Do Not Call registrations to eight years.

Co-ordinated action by the ACMA, the US Federal Trade Commission and regulators in other countries has closed down a long running telephone scam in which the scammers posed as tech support staff for Microsoft and other IT companies to extract money from consumers by pretending to remove malware from their 'infected' PCs.

Is making 12,000 calls to people on the Do Not Call Register blatant enough to attract a significant fine?  ACMA thinks so.

The ACMA has finalised rules governing the delivery of fax-based marketing messages, as part of the Do-Not-Call regime, limiting the times at which these can be sent and their frequency.

The proposed extensions to the Do Not Call register would be a cost burden and a "compliance nightmare" for small business, and the Coalition will oppose the legislation in the Senate, shadow small business spokesman Bruce Billson says.