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Non-terrorist coverage included the second part of Armen Keteyian's Investigation for CBS into fraudulent telemarketing boilerrooms operating out of Montreal. The scams tell elderly marks they have won sweepstakes prizes--but they must prepay taxes, insurance and delivery fees in cash before receiving their payout. Yesterday Keteyian showed us "the most unorthodox ways" whereby cash had been mailed to the conmen to avoid customs duties, including a magazine with $100 bills inserted between its pages. In part two, Keteyian introduced us to the source of the telephone numbers those boilerrooms call. The contacts each belong to a "sucker list" falling into such categories as compulsive gamblers, the elderly infirmed and inveterate entrants in phony sweepstakes. Printing press owner Rick Panas is accused of being a source of sucker lists: he was "barred from doing business in Iowa for bogus prize mailings." When Keteyian went to South Carolina to interview Panas he was greeted with that staple of the television expose--the door slammed in the face of the handheld camera.
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