AmI entitled to monetary compensation if I report a company that is known to practice in illegal telemarketing scams?
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AmI entitled to monetary compensation if I report a company that is known to practice in illegal telemarketing scams?
I worked with a telemarketing company for about 2 days and from the responses of the customers, most are elderly, that this company scams people. I know for sure that the phone services they claim to offer are scams and the customer eventually pays more than 3 times a normal phone or internet bill. I do have the business name address and owners.
Asked on July 10, 2011 under Business Law, Florida
Answers:
M.T.G., Member, New York Bar / FreeAdvice Contributing Attorney
Answered 13 years ago | Contributor
So let me understand this: you want to know if you do the right thing and turn this company and its owners in to the state Attorney General's Office - which is the place that you should call - you can receive some type of reward for the information? Checkwith the state attorney general's office in Florida if they have any program for compensating those that expose scams and those that take care of the elderly, but other than that you have no entitlement to compensation that I can think of. Only the knowledge that you can sleep at night, which in my opinion is worth a great deal. To quote Spike Lee: Do the right thing.
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