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Phone call of the Day

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A great series of thoughts about how to defeat telemarketing fraud, started by Tyler Cowen who noted:

"For the past three years, [Bhumika] Chaturvedi has been a top collection agent at her call center, phoning hundreds of Americans a day and politely asking them to pay up.

As the U.S. financial crisis plunges Americans into debt, her business is one of the fastest-growing sectors in Indian outsourcing. It is also one of the few sectors of outsourcing in India that is still hiring aggressively."

Tyler suggested that he would simply stop answering the phone, if he owed money.

I suggested that the best way to avoid telemarketing calls was to buy an answering machine and not put yourself on the do not call list.

But, read the entire comments for some other interesting ideas.

Full post as published by Misleading Advertising Law on October 15, 2008 (boomark / email).