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Telemarketer Nina Smith, who makes calls from a West Virgina boiler room, in the New York Times magazine:

"East Coast and Southern people are friendly -- you get profanity from California. People say: 'You have my number. Why don't you give me yours? Then, I can call you at home.' ''
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Unfortunately, I worked in a boiler room (which was actually a bit more of a prison environment, given some of the people there) for a while many years ago. The biggest strokes - people who'd tell you to send out FedEx but then send something something other than a check or just not be there when they said they would - were, IIRC, in West Virginia and New Hampshire. Coincidentally, those are places with FedEx cutoff times like 10am and five hours. I wouldn't even bother calling people in MS, AL, LA, or the major east coast cities. The first had no money, and the second were almost always suspects not prospects.

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