Saturday, August 9, 2008
Denton woman swindled as result of giving telemarketer credit card number
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DENTON — Yet another person gave their credit card number to a stranger over the phone, only to be cheated.
A telemarketer, working for a company that solicited donations for the Texas State Troopers Association, used a Denton woman’s credit card information to pay a cell phone bill.
A spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said the telemarketing company does not represent the DPS and warned about giving credit card information over the telephone to strangers.
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chretienne Anonymous
When are we going to outlaw telemarketers who take it upon themselves to freelance fund-raise for legitimate charities? And why can't the legitimate charities (if that's what they are) simply refuse that .10 on the $1 that they receive from these dodgy telemarketers? Am I oversimplifying?
3 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
Rick Yost Verified
chretienne- You're not simplifying enough!
When are people going to stop accepting phone calls from telemarketers? When are people going to stop giving out credit card info to any stranger who CALLS THEM? If you want to spend your money on anything, shouldn't it be your idea? Shouldn't you be the one to instigate the transaction.
At least, if this woman thought the caller's cause was legit and worthy, she should have hung up from the telemarketer, and then sought out the proper place to donate on her own.
I have little sympathy for anyone who will answer their phone, realize it's a sales call, and then actually listen to the pitch.
It's at times like this when I miss having a phone with a real receiver I can slam.
Let the buyer beware!
If you're over the age of twelve, you should know to just hang up when you answer the phone and it's someone wanting money. That's just modern-day common sense.
3 months, 3 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
momzilla Anonymous
Rick, most typically they are able to take advantage of the elderly. We had a terrible problem with that issue relative to my mother-in-law. She'd buy everything from every telemarketer that called her, and donated to "charities" on quite a number of occasions. Putting her on the "do not call" list didn't help because most of these telemarketers were nominally from charities or were companies with whom she had a business relationship in some way. I had to call and cancel the disability insurance on her credit cards a number of times, for example.
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Pavel Lishin Verified
chretienne - they did outlaw that, under the blanket outlawing of "fraud".
People who buy things from telemarketers are in the same category as people who buy things from spam advertisements - they're the ones ruining it for the rest of us.
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