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* What is the slang term for the room or place where scammers . . .bozo de niro
+* Re: What is the slang term for the room or place where scammers . . .bil...@shaw.ca
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`* Re: What is the slang term for the room or place where scammers . . .Rich Ulrich
 `- Re: What is the slang term for the room or place where scammers . . .bozo de niro

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 by: bozo de niro - Mon, 6 Nov 2023 23:22 UTC

make high-pressure sales calls to promising easy marks?

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 by: bil...@shaw.ca - Mon, 6 Nov 2023 23:43 UTC

On Monday, November 6, 2023 at 3:22:19 PM UTC-8, bozo de niro wrote:
> make high-pressure sales calls to promising easy marks?

That's a phone room in this part of the world. But above-board operations
for sales or charitable fundraisers may also be called phone rooms. It's the
presence of many people making phone calls that make it a phone room,
not whether they're in a legitimate business.

This is all easy to find with a simple search for "phone room".

bill

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 by: Rich Ulrich - Tue, 7 Nov 2023 00:48 UTC

On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 15:22:16 -0800 (PST), bozo de niro
<bosodeniro@gmail.com> wrote:

>make high-pressure sales calls to promising easy marks?

After Googling <'phone room' conmen>

From the Wikipedia entry for boiler room

In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound call center
selling questionable investments by telephone. It usually refers to
a room where salespeople work using unfair, dishonest sales tactics,
sometimes selling penny stocks or private placements or committing
outright stock fraud. A common boiler room tactic is the use of
falsified and bolstered information in combination with verified
company-released information.[1] The term is pejorative: it is often
used to imply high-pressure sales tactics and, sometimes, poor
working conditions.

Boiler room came immediately to mind, but I thought there was
something more evocative. When I Google for synonyms, 'bucket shop'
is the winner.

--
Rich Ulrich

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 by: bozo de niro - Tue, 7 Nov 2023 00:48 UTC

I found it! -- with the help of that pesky thing called "Artificial Intelligence" -- and it's called a "Boiler Room".

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 by: bozo de niro - Tue, 7 Nov 2023 00:52 UTC

On Monday, November 6, 2023 at 4:48:46 PM UTC-8, Rich Ulrich wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 15:22:16 -0800 (PST), bozo de niro
> <bosod...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >make high-pressure sales calls to promising easy marks?
> After Googling <'phone room' conmen>
>
> From the Wikipedia entry for boiler room
>
> In business, the term boiler room refers to an outbound call center
> selling questionable investments by telephone. It usually refers to
> a room where salespeople work using unfair, dishonest sales tactics,
> sometimes selling penny stocks or private placements or committing
> outright stock fraud. A common boiler room tactic is the use of
> falsified and bolstered information in combination with verified
> company-released information.[1] The term is pejorative: it is often
> used to imply high-pressure sales tactics and, sometimes, poor
> working conditions.
>
> Boiler room came immediately to mind, but I thought there was
> something more evocative. When I Google for synonyms, 'bucket shop'
> is the winner.
>
> --
> Rich Ulrich

Thank you, ur right. It was on the tip of my tongue for HOURS and I just couldn't get the damn thing off!

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