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Americans of $15 billion each year, according to estimates by the Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing. About twothirds of those losses result from phony investment schemes.
These swindlers usually operate from “boiler rooms,” which are rented rooms housing nothing more than portable tables, telephones, and folding chairs occupied by unscrupulous telemarketers. The investments sold may be nonexistent or merely overvalued, but they are never as represented.
Not surprisingly, boiler room swindlers use high-pressure tactics, replete with admonitions to act immediately, before it is “too late.” Other features may include:
• Tactics aimed at making the customer buy out of
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