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Putting Cold Calls on Ice - Telemarketing Rules
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Tags: telemarketing, sales, rules, protection
The FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule helps protect you from abusive and deceptive telephone sales practices. The Rule restricts calling times to the hours between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m., and puts other limits on telemarketers, too. For example:
| | Telemarketers must tell you it's a sales call, the name of the seller and what they're selling before they make their pitch. |
| | It's illegal for telemarketers to lie about their goods or services; earnings potential, profitability, risk, or liquidity of an investment; or the nature of a prize in a prize-promotion scheme. |
| | Before you pay, telemarketers must tell you the total cost of the goods they're selling; any restrictions on getting or using them; and if a sale is final or non-refundable. In a prize promotion, they must tell you the odds of winning, that no purchase or payment is necessary to win, and any restrictions or conditions of receiving the prize. |
| | It's illegal for a telemarketer to withdraw money from your checking account without your express, verifiable authorization. |
| | Telemarketers cannot lie to get you to pay, no matter what method of payment you use. |
| | You do not have to pay for credit repair, recovery room, or credit services until these services have been delivered. |
| | It's illegal for a telemarketer to call you if you have asked not to be called. |
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