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Did You Know...?
- Telemarketing is a $400 billion a year business.
- Americans lose $40 billion a year to fraudulent telemarketers.
- 56% of the people targeted by telemarketers are 50 or older
- Telemarketers have the fire power to make 560 calls per second (24 million per day).
- Charities make more money from selling your name and number to the other telemarketing companies than from the donations they collect from calling.
- On average, only 24% of what you donate as a result of a telemarketing call will actually get to the charity on whose behalf the solicitation is made. The telemarketing company hired to make the call gets the rest.
- The average American gets called 2 to 3 times per day by a telemarketer.
- The FBI estimates that there are 14,000 illegal sales operations bilking consumers in the United States every day.
- The same telemarketer will often call an elderly person day after day, building a relationship with the target, until he/she thinks a friend, not a stranger is trying to sell them something.
- 92% of the adults in the United States have reported receiving fraudulent telephone offers.
- The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, ostensibly passed to protect consumers from telemarketers, has proven ineffective due to numerous loopholes.
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