telemarketing fraud

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• Telemarketing fraud — is fraudulent selling conducted over the phone. It most often targets the poor and elderly. Common types include: *Advance fee fraud (typically claiming that the victim will receive a lottery prize, government grant or loan, etc) *Pyramid schemes …   Wikipedia

• telemarketing — tel‧e‧mar‧ket‧ing [ˌteliˈmɑːktɪŋ ǁ ˈmɑːr ] noun [uncountable] MARKETING the practice of telephoning people in order to sell things: • The software will be used in growing applications such as telemarketing and customer service. ˌinbound… …   Financial and business terms

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• Phone fraud — Whether in the form of the consumer attempting to defraud the telephone company, the telephone company attempting to defraud the consumer, or a third party attempting to defraud either of them, fraud has been a part of the telephone system almost …   Wikipedia

• Cramming (fraud) — Cramming is a form of fraud in which small charges are added to a bill by a third party without the subscriber s consent or disclosure. These may be disguised as a tax or some other common fee, and may be several dollars or even just a few cents …   Wikipedia

• Advance-fee fraud — African sting An advance fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam are the Nigerian Letter (also… …   Wikipedia

• Cheque fraud — Cheque fraud/check fraud refers to a category of criminal acts that involve making the unlawful use of cheques in order to illegally acquire or borrow funds that do not exist within the account balance or account holder s legal ownership. Most… …   Wikipedia

• Charity fraud — is the act of using deception to get money from people who believe they are making donations to charities. Often a person or a group of people will make material representations that they are a charity or part of a charity and ask prospective… …   Wikipedia

• Microcap stock fraud — The night singer of shares sold stock on the streets during the South Sea Bubble. Amsterdam, 1720. Microcap stock fraud is a form of securities fraud involving stocks of microcap companies, generally defined in the United States as those with a… …   Wikipedia

• Internet fraud — refers to the use of Internet services to present fraudulent solicitations to prospective victims, to conduct fraudulent transactions, or to transmit the proceeds of fraud to financial institutions or to others connected with the scheme. Internet …   Wikipedia

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