The trouble with telesales calls

21 July 2015 - 02:04
By Wendy Knowler

Just as consumers' signatures are occasionally forged, call recordings are sometimes manipulated or fabricated to falsify a consumer's consent to a deal. With consumers seldom getting access to those call recordings - which become legally binding contracts when deals are concluded telephonically, the perpetrators have a good chance of getting away with it.

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