boiler rooms
Basement heating chambers
A boiler room is originally a basement space housing heating equipment.
The phrase extends to high-pressure telephone sales operations, typically cramped rooms where aggressive callers work from scripts to push dubious investments or products: He got a job in a boiler room selling penny stocks.
The term implies deception or at least ethically questionable tactics.
- steamHeated water's gaseous form
- steam pipesTubes conveying heated vapor
- pipesCylindrical fluid carriers
- furnaceEnclosed heat-producing structure
- cold callingUnsolicited sales contact
heat · thermal · deceptive practices · valve · telemarketing · hard sell · sales pitch · gauges · Ponzi scheme · steam engine · high pressure · pyramid scheme · energy · pressure · investment scam · fraud · power plant · feedwater
- unwanted callsrobocalls, nuisance calls, scam calls, junk calls, telemarketers
- fraudscam, fraud, swindle, con, deceive
- Battleship Partsgun turrets, turrets, armor, armor plating, cannons
- financial fraudsecurities fraud, bank fraud, accounting fraud, defalcation, embezzler
- marketing scamsfalse ads, fake reviews, fake testimonials, fake endorsements, false promises
- boilersboilers, feedwater
boiler roomsliving rooms
Primary domestic gathering spaces
living spaces · bedrooms · residential quarters · living quarters · parlors
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