[asterisk-users] FTC Bans Prerecorded Telemarketing Drivel

[Alex Balashov]

I would be curious to know where, in this classification, fall various 
telemarketing schemes that are technically not cold-calls, but are 
generated from leads that come from customer-provided information, but 
where the customer does not know explicitly that they are signing up to 
receive calls.

For instance, this is common in a number of industries such as financial 
services.  You do a search to get a quote on something, and provide your 
phone number in the process, although the phone number bears no relation 
to the submission and is just an ancillary required item.  Several 
places' telemarketing organisations call you back in response.  For 
example, lendingtree.com.

Is this a "solicited" call?

Michael Collins wrote:

>> Gives us legitimate telemarketers a bad damn name.  :-)
> 
> Isn't "legitimate telemarketers" an oxymoron?

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