Never Buy Anything from Telephone or Door-to-Door Solicitation - Seek Out The Service Instead
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Protect yourself as a consumer by not buying anything from a telephone solicitor or door-to-door saleperson.
While not all telephone solicitors and door-to-door salesman are fraudulent, you have a higher chance of being a victim of fraud by purchasing a product or service over the phone or from someone who knocks on your door. The reason for this higher risk stems from the fact that you are letting the product or service find you, rather than you seeking out that product or service.
When services come to you by phone or door-to-door salespeople, you may have very little to trace if something goes wrong. When fraud is being perpetrated, you may have nothing at all or just a phone number and maybe some fake papers. Fly by night services, con-artists and scammers prefer that you don't know where they are operate out of, if they have a location at all. Calling you on the phone and visiting you at your home suits them very well.
When you visit a business to seek their services or look them up in a phone book, you have more to trace in the event of that something goes wrong. You have a physical location and at least an address and phone number from a trusted directory.
Seek out a service to protect yourself, don't let that service come to you.
