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Category Archives: Telemarketers, cold callers, blah blah blah…
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
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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e-petition: Make telephone sales cold-calling illegal -UK
Link: Make telephone sales cold calling illegal – e-petitions.
Video: hilarious satire of cold-calling Indian pitching a two-bit, tinhorn, half-pie, end-of-the-pier, strictly-for-the-birds script.
Satirical video of typical, trashy telemarketing operation in India. Worth a laugh (3:41 minutes).
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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Sympathy for telemarketers?
Sympathy or not to sympathy: That is the question. Have you seen posts, [i] they manifest occasionally, whereby telemarketers explain to us, the recipients of tele-nuisance, why we should be sympathetic and polite to their unwanted calls? Why does the ubiquitous telemarketer ask … Continue reading
Telemarketer Types
He (or she) sounds nice In my time, I’ve experienced at least four kinds of ‘telepest.’ The artful, benevolent presenter: the caring telemarketer who attempts to mitigate their intrusion by qualifying their call with, “I’m not selling anything. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Telemarketers, cold callers, blah blah blah...
Tagged benevolent, cold caller, inhumane, interloper, prank, predictive, scam, scammer, telemarketer, telemarketing, vigilante
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