Recording of Recently Shut-Down Telemarketers In Action 104
An anonymous reader writes "Just yesterday, the FTC, in conjunction with other government agencies, shut down an international telemarketing scam. A recent video has surfaced showing them in action, trying to scam one of the principals of a Canadian web start-up. Watch the scammers lie through their teeth to convince their 'victim' that he needs to buy a lifetime subscription to their anti-virus product."
All telemarketers are scammers (Score:5, Insightful)
There are no exceptions.
Re:A lifetime contract for AV software! (Score:5, Insightful)
Oh no silly. You seem to think that this was a "pay once, and get service forever!" Type lifetime contract.
Coming from a scam farm, I would expect more "signee agrees to pay $24.95 per month in purpetuity in exchange for service."
Re:All telemarketers are scammers (Score:3, Insightful)
Except for the ones who actually do the job right, of course (which requires managers who allow it).
Telemarketers as a group get a lot of shit for doing a pretty benign job. At my last IT admin job, I got a few telemarketing calls a month, mostly from vendors we already work with telling me about their new products. Pretty benign, and sometimes actually useful.
The bad ones are just the ones who cold-call people they have no relationship with already, press sales, and lie.
Re:All telemarketers are scammers (Score:5, Insightful)
usually telemarketing refers to cold calling.
What I mean, is that usually if it's an ongoing business relationship - like you had with your vendors - then it's no longer telemarketing - emphasized by the fact that even if you were on a some national do not call list(in any western nation) they can call you because they have an already established business relationship with you.
in that context all telemarketers are scammers.
Re:All telemarketers are scammers (Score:0, Insightful)
reputable marketing companies
won't lie
have proper QA and audit trails
don;t want to waste anyone's time re something that would not be a match
all marketing time is expensive
think long term relationship build
but yeah there are crooked people in every profession - banks anyone? ever talked to an IT recruitment agency?
Re:All telemarketers are scammers (Score:5, Insightful)
If a telemarketer calls to try and sell me a service or product that I don't already have, then in it is generally a safe bet that I don't want or need it. If it happens to be for something that I would quite like, I am sure I can find a better price by myself rather than accept what a salesman is offering me over a phone line. I will never pay for something from a telemarketer and I detest the whole idea of sales people phoning strangers in an attempt to talk them into buying a product.
I'm not saying all telemarketers are bad, just that telemarketing as a whole is bad!
Re:All telemarketers are scammers (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:All telemarketers are scammers (Score:2, Insightful)