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Telemarketing fraud is fraudulent selling conducted over the telephone. The term is also used for telephone fraud not involving selling. Telemarketing...

Telemarketing (sometimes known as inside sales, or telesales in the UK and Ireland) is a method of direct marketing in which a salesperson solicits prospective...

educates and provides awareness campaign on fraud prevention and telemarketing pitches, particularly in March (Fraud Awareness Month) to prevent future victimization...

of telemarketing fraud cases, USPIS led an interagency group of law enforcement and consumer organizations in what was named “Project kNOw Fraud.” In...

Americans, sweepstakes and lottery fraud, and telemarketing fraud. Additional information about these various types of mail fraud schemes can be found on the...

The Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 103–297) is a federal law in the United States...

lottery fraud, disability fraud, charity fraud, mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud, mortgage fraud, telemarketing fraud, return fraud, false...

Telemarketing fraud victimization of older Americans: an AARP survey. Washington, DC: AARP. "Off the Hook: Reducing Participation in Telemarketing Fraud...

a health care fraud and insurance fraud conspiracy. Mayorkas served as the coordinator of the Southern California Telemarketing Fraud Task Force, overseeing...

Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah after she was charged in a telemarketing fraud case. Shah pleaded guilty in July 2022. In March 2023, Chaudhry said...

District of California, where he was charged with mail fraud, wire fraud, telemarketing fraud and aiding and abetting. Tahvili was arrested in British...

nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme. Shah previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing. On September...

Autodialers may be used for a number of dishonest purposes, including telemarketing fraud or even as wardialing, which takes its name from a scene in the 1983...

fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and talismans...

effective way to spend money in 21st century election campaigns. Telemarketing fraud is a major issue, especially when exploiting the more susceptible...

introduced a series of AARP mutual funds in 1997. By the mid-1990s, telemarketing fraud had become pervasive and cost consumers more than $40 billion a year...

Other names include the paving scam, tarmacking, the asphalt scam, driveway fraud or similar variants. Non-English names include "Truffa dell'asfalto" (Italian)...

their actions and recommend policy changes regarding the kind of telemarketing fraud that the documentary covered. Specifically, he was “preparing to...

the fraud sweeps concept where the agency and its federal, state, and local partners filed simultaneous legal actions against multiple telemarketing fraud...

"dumped" on the public at inflated prices. Such schemes involve telemarketing and Internet fraud. Chop stocks, which are stocks purchased for pennies and sold...