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Preying on Pity

Number 16303
Subject Charities
Source KPRC-TV (Houston)
State TX
Year 1999
Publication Date Nov. 10, 11, 1999
Summary KPRC-TV report "We sent a KPRC-TV employee inside the Houston office of one of the country's largest telemarketing companies. ... Carrying a hidden camera our employee exposed the company's managers training employees to lie and tell half-truths about handicaps and disabilities they simply don't have. Their purpose was to create pity so unknowing customers would buy their products...."
Category Contest Entry
Pages 21
Keywords TAPE TRANSCRIPT Lifeline Industries Better Business Bureau Attorney General Michael Zampieri donations
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