Match the key terns listed in Column 1 to the description in Column 2. Use each description only once.

A. Telemarketing fraud
B. Mark Suckman
C. Telephone swindle
D. False advertising
E. Bait and switch
F. Price-fixing
G. Price-gouging
H. Knockoffs


A. Characterized by the use of the telephone to get consumers to send money to the promoter for worthless or overvalued products or services
B. Used a telemarketing scheme to convince a public-school office manager to send him checks totaling $2 million for nothing
C. Consists of three calls beginning with the front
D. Deceptive advertisements that make false or misleading claims
E. Defined by the FTC as an alluring but insincere offer to sell a product or service which the advertiser does not intend or want to sell
F. Bid-rigging where consumers lose the benefits of competition
G. The practice of taking extraordinary advantages of consumers because of the bias of the law, monopoly of the market, or because of contrived or real shortages
H. The covert substitution of low-quality counterfeit versions of brand-name consumer products.

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