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do not callThe National Do Not Call Registry “was established to try to limit the serious effect that telemarketing tactics were having on consumers,” according to Adrian LaRochelle, a staff attorney for the Bureau of Securities Regulation, in a phone interview with OnWallStreet.com.

The Federal Trade Commission set up the do-not-call list in 2003 to let consumers block telemarketing calls at home.

Last week, the New Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation filed a complaint seeking a fine of as much as $3 million against St. Louis-based Edward Jones.

“Consumers level more complaints about unsolicited phone calls from St. Louis-based Edward Jones than any other brokerage,” the regulators said.

John Boul, an Edward Jones spokesman, said the firm hasn’t received any complaints from consumers and that the New Hampshire regulators only got one complaint. The company has cooperated with the investigation and will defend itself against the allegations, he said in an e-mail. Full story here.