Investopedia / Michela Buttignol Telemarketing is the direct marketing of goods or services to potential customers over the telephone, Internet, or fax. Telemarketing may either be carried out by ...

The leader of a massive telemarketing scheme that preyed on elderly and vulnerable adults to the tune of $103 million was sentenced Tuesday by a federal judge in Minnesota to 10 years in prison.

Thacker & Associates and Tri Star Consumer Group — ran a sophisticated telemarketing scheme which promised it could greatly reduce or eliminate customers' credit card debt within 12 to 18 months ...

Dahl revealed details of telemarketing companies that started in the Twin Cities and moved elsewhere, and how the scammers ...