Are You A Target Of Telephone Scams?
- Topics:
- Telesales - Telemarketing
- Tags:
- Advertising & Promotion,
- International Long Distance Phone Service,
- Marketing,
- Marketing Research,
- Phone,
- Telecom & Utilities,
- Telemarketing
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Overview: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) encourages you to be skeptical when one hear a phone solicitation and to be aware of the Telemarketing Sales Rule, a new law that can help one protect himself from abusive and deceptive telemarketers. Fraudulent telemarketers try to take advantage of older people on the theory that they may be more trusting and polite toward strangers. Older women living alone are special targets of these scam artists. Sometimes telephone con artists reach people when they are feeling lonely. They may call day after day--until one think a friend, not a stranger, is trying to sell one something. The article talks on common telephone scams. Telephone con artists spend a lot of time polishing their "lines" to get one to buy. The FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule requires telemarketers to make certain disclosures and prohibits certain misrepresentations. While most types of telemarketing calls are covered by the rule, there are exceptions that are discussed in this article.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1
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