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Last Updated on Thursday, 14 August 2008 12:22 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:18
Another story about rampaging telemarketers, the bounties on their heads, running afoul of the telemarketing laws in the quaker state. From Indiana Gazette Online:
he Pennsylvania attorney general’s office said Tuesday it has sued a Baltimore-based telemarketer over what authorities allege is the biggest single violation of the state’s “Do Not Call” law since it took effect in 2002.
The firm, Direct Leadsource, used a telephone center in Gujarat, India, to call 519,000 Pennsylvania consumers whose numbers were supposedly off-limits to most telemarketers, officials said. The calls were made during a six-month period last year as part of a campaign to market mortgage loans, officials said.
Authorities said the firm, which operated under the names Applied Financial and Financial Awards Center, is not licensed to sell such loans in Pennsylvania or registered as a telemarketer in the state.