Us Divisions Community Service Telemarketing Schemes Telemarketing Schemes Telemarketers Fraudulent telemarketers try to take advantage of older people on the theory that they may be more trusting and polite toward strangers.
Telemarketing is a multi-billion dollar business in the United States.
Every year, thousands of consumers lose from a few dollars to their life savings to telephone con artists. Telephone con artists are skilled at sounding believable - even when they are really telling lies. Sometimes telephone con artists reach you when you are feeling lonely. They may call day after day - until you think a friend, not a stranger, is trying to sell you something. Some telephone salespeople have an answer for everything.