Hidden camera uncovers exploitation and pressure-selling at direct sales firm

Today we expose the disgraceful inner workings of a direct sales firm in Cardiff whose workers go door to door trying to persuade people to set up direct debits to established UK charities.

Working undercover and wearing a hidden camera, we can reveal behaviour which has left one of those charities appalled, an MP shocked, a fundraising firm describing the footage as “unbelievable” and a regulator saying it is assessing our evidence.

After months of research, our investigation can now reveal:

- Lies and pressure-selling on doorsteps to get people to sign up to direct debit payments to charities
A pensioner having to insist four times that she doesn’t want to sign up before a sales rep stops persisting
- An attempt to sign up another elderly woman who is clearly confused and giving answers that do not correspond to the seller’s questions.
- New recruits being told to “trick” people in doorstep pitches for charity sign-ups
- Job adverts with empty promises of minimum salaries placed by a sales operation that falsely claims to have represented household-name firms
- New starters being advised to spend less time with their families
- An "appalled" charity will investigate every donation as a result of our footage.

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