What Is Telemarketing Fraud
Telemarketing Fraud Statute 18 USC 2325
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Telemarketing Fraud Charges
What makes the act of telemarketing fraud unlawful is punishable under Money Laundering is a financial crime under 18 USC 1956 making illegally obtained money appear to be legitimate punishable by 20 year Federal Prison. is using it as a medium for defrauding others. To make it punishable, telemarketing must be used as a scheme by which one tries to communicate to a potential victim in order to induce the disclosure of personal information or financial information. To constitute telemarketing fraud, the following acts must have been committed:
- Inducing another to purchase goods or services, to participate in a sweepstakes or contest, giving of charitable donation
- The campaign or programs presented are made through one or more interstate calls
- Using telemarketing as a scheme in an attempt or cause another to provide personal and financial data
- With the intention to defraud another
- Fraudulent business transactions by promoting a fake investment scheme that will induce the victim to send money as an initial payment or other forms of business offers
Telemarketing Fraud Cases
The telemarketing fraud punishable under 18 USC 2325 is one among the different types of frauds that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) usually investigates. In certain cases, the United States Secret Service may also get involved in the investigation because the telemarketing fraud may also constitute as a part of an international crime.
Telemarketing Fraud Guidelines
In determining who is guilty in a telemarketing conspiracy, and what their offense level should be at sentencing requires a close examination of the facts. Based on the Federal Court’s ruling in United States v. Studley, 47 F.3d 569, 575 (2d Cir. 1995), Knowledge of “another participant’s criminal acts is not enough to hold the defendant responsible for those acts,” and knowledge of a conspiracy’s overall objectives does not make the defendant accountable for all the co-conspirators’ acts furthering those objectives.
If applied to telemarketing fraud, “the scope of a joint undertaking for sentencing purposes depend[s] on whether the telemarketers ‘worked together,’ ‘relied on one another to make a sale,’ attended the same sales meetings, and ‘depended on the success of . . . the operation as a whole for their financial compensation.’” Treadwell, 593 F.3d at 1005 (quoting Blitz, 151 F.3d at 1013).
If two defendants, working together, design and execute a scheme to sell fraudulent stocks in a telephone boiler-room operation, each is accountable for all the fraud losses that result. The conduct of each is in furtherance of their jointly undertaken criminal activity and is reasonably foreseeable in connection with that criminal activity. U.S.S.G. § 1B1.3, cmt. n.2, Illustration (c)(2). To determine a defendant’s fraud-loss amount and resulting offense level, a district court must consider that defendant’s role in the overall scheme. See Treadwell, 593 F.3d at 1005; Studley, 47 F.3d at 576.
Telemarketing Fraud Penalties
Anyone who is deemed guilty of violating the provisions of 18 USC 2325 in the commission of telemarketing fraud will be subjected to the following penalties:
- A prison term that does not exceed 5 years, which may be added to the prison term designated for each section of the Code for the offense
- A higher term of imprisonment that will not exceed 10 years in case the victim of the crime consists of ten or more individuals who are more than 55 years old.
- Imprisonment that does go beyond 10 years of prison term if the victim is 55 years or older.
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