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\t\t\t\tFor decades, telemarkers in “boiler rooms” have bilked the elderly by convincing touting them to buy investments which supposedly pay high rates of return or have fabulous growth potential. <\/p>\n

Now thieves operating in small offices in Canada and warehouses in India work day and night targeting elderly Americans. Working from lists of names and phone numbers, they call War veterans, retired schoolteachers and thousands of other elderly Americans and posed as government and insurance workers updating their files. <\/p>\n

Then, the criminals empty their victims’ bank accounts! <\/p>\n

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For decades, telemarkers in “boiler rooms” have bilked the elderly by convincing touting them to buy investments which supposedly pay high rates of return or have fabulous growth potential. Now thieves operating in small offices in Canada and warehouses in India work day and night targeting elderly Americans. 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