June 3, 2009

The Growing Number of Arizona Telemarketing Fraud Cases

According to the United States Department of Justice “Telemarketing Fraud” is: any scheme to defraud in which the persons carrying out the scheme use[s] the telephone as their primary means of communicating with prospective victims and trying to persuade them to send money to the scheme. Arizona has a unique history with the telemarketing industry. Many of the “pioneers” of mass telemarketing started in Arizona and it was a tremendously lucrative business.  However, once many of the people involved in

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