Grifters calling or walking door-to-door and asking for money, for some made-up charity or organization. Especially targeting older people.
It's extremely frowned upon to begin with, but at least the laws make it illegal.
(Not that it necessarily hinders those that really want to scam someone. Some of these BS "organizations" just contract their work to foreign call-centers. Every year a lot of young European people are lured to some low-cost country in southern Europe, where they'll have to work for some call-center at below minimum wage - and these centers will sometimes work for anyone...)
It's extremely frowned upon to begin with, but at least the laws make it illegal.
(Not that it necessarily hinders those that really want to scam someone. Some of these BS "organizations" just contract their work to foreign call-centers. Every year a lot of young European people are lured to some low-cost country in southern Europe, where they'll have to work for some call-center at below minimum wage - and these centers will sometimes work for anyone...)