Is Scam Involved In Telemarketing?

Although telemarketing is used by legal companies as a mean of advertising their products, but there are many illegal companies which use telemarketing to scam people and make money.

Such companies are frauds and usually pyramid schemes, in which fraud companies taken money from people, telling them that it involves their enrollment in to some program, which does not even exist. Once they get the money, they just disappear. Customers wait for their product or services for which they paid and of course they never receive it.

Some companies also make people fools by telling them if they give a small amount of money, they will win a big lottery ticket or some thing related to that, which obviously does not exist. Many companies claim they are charity organizations and ask people to pledge for needy people. However they are not even legitimate and end up successful after taking off money from people.

In the United States, there are certain policies and rules designed by federal government, known as the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991. They have certain laws and ethics which all companies have to follow or else pay big penalties.

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Beyond being scams in the traditional sense, many telemarketing businesses thrive on dishonesty and take advantage of people's naivety. I worked for 2 days as a telemarketer, and could no longer continue to make people feel so uncomfortable. I have always hated it when strangers called me to ask questions about my pocketbook. Even when people call the engineering firm that I now work for to ask who does the buying, I feel like my spce has been violated and wish they'd let me get on with my work. It was 15 times as bad being on the other side of the phone line.

The business was a legal one. It involved enrolment in magazine subscriptions for too much money with the prospect of possibly winning some sort of sweepstakes. You started the call off by trying to access if the person you were calling (or even any of their family members) had a credit card or checking account; Basically trying to determine if they had any money. Then you did your best to convince them that they wanted a magazine subscription. The whole script and process was nothing more than blatant manipulation. The 2 days that I worked there, I left every afternoon wanting to cry. I don't mind selling someone a service that they need or even want, but I kept realizing that all I was doing was kind of trapping these people who weren't very bright, and didn't realize that I wasn't offering them some brilliant deal.

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