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This article demonstrates that telemarketers are more than just passive nuisances: a “…former employee, who was laid off by the company several weeks ago, alleges that Epixtar’s telemarketers use a variety of techniques — including altering taped telephone calls — to prove that customers agreed to charges.” Those bastards! If you’re quick on your feet, you might fight back on your own terms: http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/ Or, you can just be a pain and turn their tactics against them. From the anti-telemarketing counterscript:

Telemarketers make use of a telescript - a guideline for a telephone conversation. This script creates an imbalance in the conversation between the marketer and the consumer. It is this imbalance, most of all, that makes telemarketing successful. The EGBG Counterscript attempts to redress that balance… [more]

 

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