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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 51, December 18, 2016, Article 34

WANTED: COLD CALLING PHONE POUNDERS

Ever get a call from one of those coin telemarketers? Here's a Craigslist ad recruiting for them. -Editor

Cold Calling Phone Pounders Needed for Rare Coin Sales

Work Hard-Make Money!!

Put in the time and effort each day pounding the phone and dialing for dollars and you will EARN!!

Looking for Cold Calling Telemarketers/Sales Reps selling rare coins to our lead lists of coin collectors.

We are a new office in Farmington Hills. We are located On North Western Highway and Middle Belt next to Buddy's Pizza.

No industry experience necessary. BUT MUST have Cold Calling and Telemarketing Phone Experience and be able to manually dial out 300-400 calls per shift.

This is a "Dial for Dollars" 1099 COMMISSION Only Position.

Average coin sales reps in this industry make $1,000-$2000 per week. Top coin sales reps, once established with clients, can make anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000 a week.

All coins are certified. Huge income potential for you in this up and coming industry.

All leads provided by the company. Full-time and Part time positions available.

I shared this with Joel Orosz, who writes: "I'm sure that all of the great coin collections of the modern era--Brand, Eliasberg, Newman, Partrick, et. al.--were built by purchases made from cold calling phone pounders from an office located next door to Buddy's Pizza shop. And if not, they should have been!"

Thankfully I rarely get one of these calls, but I do have fun with them, asking for numismatic details they clearly have no clue about. Like the ad says, "No industry experience necessary." -Editor

Joel adds:

I just wish I could listen in on you playing with one of the guys when he calls, asking him questions about the diagnostics of hub versus machine doubling, or the finer points of identifying die progressions.

To read the complete article, see:
Cold Calling Phone Pounders Needed for Rare Coin Sales (Farmington Hills) (http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/sls/5916457199.html)

We don't know the name or business practices of the seller from Michigan, but others in this field can be real scumbags. It's no laughing matter when when trusting people get ripped off. Here's an article about one such incident in Missouri. -Editor

A Clinton County woman said her elderly father was recently swindled out of nearly $10,000 from on online coin collector site.

“Most of these scams are committed outside of the country — a lot of them are out of Nigeria and in places where we don’t have extradition or the ability to investigate,” said Richard Shelton, a detective with the St. Joseph Police Department.

The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, said her father made purchases through Liberty Coin Gallery. According to its website the company is based in Ronkonkoma, New York.

“We at Liberty Coin Galleries, pride ourselves on the success of our clients across the country and we are dedicated to helping them secure their portfolios and protect their finances for generations to come,” according to Liberty Coin Gallery’s mission statement.

She said her ailing 80-year-old father, who is a disabled veteran and former law enforcement officer, was easy prey for the “piranhas.”

“Old people live by themselves a lot of times and their phones don’t ring that often, so when it does, they immediately think it’s a friendly call,” she said. “These people are slick. They know how to worm their way in.”

She said he received an $1,990 order that he didn’t want, but did not return it within the 15 days grace period.

She said once he realized the coins were not worth what he paid, he asked the company to stop calling him. The woman, who lives in Plattsburg, Missouri, and works in St. Joseph, said her father lives in a retirement home in Gravois Mills, Missouri, and she monitors his finances, but cannot catch everything since he lives three and a half hours away.

The daughter also contacted Liberty Coin Gallery and asked them to cease calls to her father who is on the Do Not Call Registry. A representative told her they would honor her request, but the calls continued.

“They use computer-generated dialers,” Shelton said. “Once they answer the phone, they know it’s a legitimate number. Then that number can be sold.”

She said about 10 days later they shipped another order, which they did not accept, and charged $4,725 to a credit card he never authorized them to use.

“It’s a huge racket because most people don’t have the time and will to carry it out so they eat it. ... My dad is not a rich man,” the woman said. “It makes me mad. I can hardly talk about it.”

The woman said a credit card dispute was filed and the account was closed. The woman said if her father’s financial institution can substantiate the claim he could get the money back.

“There can be no substantiation. They are crooks,” the woman said.

To read the complete article, see:
Woman warns of online coin scam (www.newspressnow.com/news/local_news/woman-warns-of-online-coin-scam/article_83c18b05-b46b-5ef9-96c8-71c7dccdf55f.html)



Wayne Homren, Editor

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