Robocalls and 9 Other Things That Really Annoy Americans

Alamy Sure, you're on the government's Do Not Call Registry, and all sorts of rules prevent robocalls, but those annoying calls keeping coming and coming -- and coming. If getting peppered with sales calls, scams and pitches that you don't want to hear irks you, you have a lot of company. Telemarketing abuse was the fastest-growing category of complaints by consumers in 2013, according to an annual survey of state and local consumer protection agencies, released Wednesday by the Consumer Federation of America and the North American Consumer Protection Investigators.