State targets Telemarketing Fraud
State investigators is on the phone Tuesday providing information on telework marketing fraud potential targets.”Five investigators on Oahu and the Big Island, about 500 people, telling them they can be objective and give them advice, which is to investigate and deal with him,” said Jo Ann Uchida, Executive Director the State Office for Consumer Protection.
The reverse heating space “, the strategy has been used successfully by the American Association of Retired Persons and several countries, in order to sensitize them on telework marketing fraud, Uchida said.
Investigators call people from 10 am to noon and from 1:30 am to 3:30 pm They’ll offer about five minutes of information and answer questions.”We try to turn the pike and uses the same vehicle as the fraudulent telemarketers,” said Uchida, found that the FBI believes fraudulent telemarketers represented 10 per cent of the industry.
Uchida said working with private investigators a list of information gathered from the mainland and local studies.The AARP estimates annual losses telecommunications USA, marketing fraud to $ 40 billion. The elderly are priority objectives. The crime is difficult because victims are reluctant vis-à-vis cooperation with the authorities.
There are no statistics to measure the magnitude of the problem in Hawaii, but the office Uchida February to 73 August requests and has received inquiries / complaints forms.Twenty-four of these cases of fraud or deception magazine games.
The most common telemarketing fraud involved a win cash prizes. Uchida said consumers should be a red flag, if the caller asks for money from taxes or fees.
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