Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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 and other misrepresented investments or business opportunities; Overpayment fraud (where the victim is overpaid for a classified advertising or online auction purchase, with a counterfeit check or money order, and asked to wire back some of the excess); Creation of false Third-party verification recordings attributed to customers of other telephone carriers, used for telephone slamming; Misrepresented office supplies (most commonly toner) or directory listing services; Preacquired account telemarketing fraud and cramming, etc.

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