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- Name changed to ‘Pppppppppprice’ in a genuine but eccentric bid to stop cold-callers
- Video: Malware threat by antivirus scammer exposed on virtual machine
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- ‘Boiler room’ hoax for New Zealand share holders -nz
- Firms keep testing the limits of Do-Not-Call list -us
- Mississippi Public Service Commission (MPSC) fines firms $945,000 for no-call violations
- Interview with the man behind Comantra, the “cold call virus scammers”
- Cold calling percentages
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Category Archives: About telemarketing
Bon voyage and fare thee well!
Hi. Just letting you know that this is my last post on this blog. It is taking up too much of my time in competition with other interests; so I am moving on. Thanks to all my followers, commenters and … Continue reading
Why Don’t Phones Lets Us Record Calls (two way)? -ca
This was originally posted with a Canadian audience in mind, but it has relevance here in Australia and, I suspect, in most third world countries generally. Brain Jones, the author, is a programmer and works full time in the telecommunications … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged accountable, fighting fraud, fraud, phone, PSTN, record phone calls, recording device, scammer, telemarketer
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Investors duped by City Index Australasia’s cold-calling scam -au
Link: http://www.moneymanagement.com.au/news/financial-services/2012/cold-call-scammer-found-guilty
Posted in About telemarketing, Telemarketers, cold callers, blah blah blah...
Tagged ASIC, Blair Jason Travers, City Index Australasia (CIA), cold call, cold caller, Cold calling, Confidence trick, duped, false financial product information, misled, Peter Kell, scam, scammer, telemarketer, telemarketing
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Video: How to stop cold calling and make $500 from them to boot -us
Posted in About telemarketing
Tagged $500, Call centre, cell phone, cold caller, Cold calling, court, do not call, do not call list, Do Not Call Register, fraud, Robocall, suing, telemarketer, telemarketing, unsolicited, video
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Video: Malware threat by antivirus scammer exposed on virtual machine
Noah Magram, principal software engineer at security vendor Sourcefire, was called while at home by a fake antivirus company. He decided to see exactly what they do when a person grants access, only he gave them access to a virtual machine … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged cold caller, fraud, malware, Noah Magram, remote control, scam, scammer, Security, Sourcefire, technology, telemarketer, telepest, trickster, virtual machine
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Firms keep testing the limits of Do-Not-Call list -us
Adapted from Mark Mayes article, columnist / Lansing State Journal Question: When is telemarketing not telemarketing, when it’s advertising? Answer: No, that’s what unscrupulous cold callers want us to believe—but they’re wrong. Rosemary Wade of Grand Ledge had an especially … Continue reading
Posted in Making the news, Telemarketers, cold callers, blah blah blah...
Tagged cold caller, Cold calling, Do Not Call Register, false advertising, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Grand Ledge, National Do Not Call Registry, phone solicitor, Robocall, robocalls, telemarketer, telemarketing, unsolicited, unsolicited call, Williamston
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Mississippi Public Service Commission (MPSC) fines firms $945,000 for no-call violations
By JEFF AMY for the Associated Press: covers the economy, state government, health care, education and demographics in Mississippi. Not only are those telemarketing robocalls from “card services” annoying, they’re also illegal if you’ve signed up for a federal or … Continue reading
Interview with the man behind Comantra, the “cold call virus scammers”
If you live in a western country and have a landline telephone with a listed phone number, chances are you’ve been “cold called” by someone on the other side of the world with an introduction that goes something like this: … Continue reading
Cold calling percentages
Replace the cold call with … ANYTHING! Jeffrey Gitomer: I am sick of the argument that cold calling still has a valuable place in selling. Someone PLEASE show me the value. Let’s look at the facts: • 98 percent or more … Continue reading
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