Did You Know...?
Telemarketing is a $400 billion a year business.
Americans lose $40 billion a year to fraudulent telemarketers.
56% of the people targeted by telemarketers are 50 or older
Telemarketers have the fire power to make 560 calls per second (24 million per day).
Charities make more money from selling your name and number to the other telemarketing companies than from the donations they collect from calling.
On average, only 24% of what you donate as a result of a telemarketing call will actually get to the charity on whose behalf the solicitation is made. The telemarketing company hired to make the call gets the rest.
The average American gets called 2 to 3 times per day by a telemarketer.
The FBI estimates that there are 14,000 illegal sales operations bilking consumers in the United States every day.
The same telemarketer will often call an elderly person day after day, building a relationship with the target, until he/she thinks a friend, not a stranger is trying to sell them something.
92% of the adults in the United States have reported receiving fraudulent telephone offers.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991, ostensibly passed to protect consumers from telemarketers, has proven ineffective due to numerous loopholes.
