A favored technique of loan officers solicited over the telephone is to quote the price of a perfect deal, which will almost always be well below the price of an actual deal - see Mistake 5 below.
According to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, one in five children is sexually solicited over the Internet.
But he had a better way to get the funds and forms he needed: an immense network of friends and contacts whose help he would solicit over lunches of grilled prawns, fish curry, paella and "Scottish water".
The way it works is the prostitutes solicit over the CB.
Child-care advocates asked Congress on Tuesday to do more to protect adopted children — often foreign-born and suffering from behavioral problems — who are being given away to people solicited over the Internet by adoptive parents who no longer want them.
Prescribed medication was solicited over the seven days preceding the interview.
"People have daughters coming to work off the subway a few blocks away, and johns are coming over soliciting them," said Michael Hetzer, a lawyer who is vice president of the Ridgewood group.
And one Hollywood studio, Brave New Worlds, is financing its movies by soliciting people over the Internet to pay for them before they are made.
A longtime celebrity gossip columnist was sentenced yesterday to six years in federal prison for soliciting sex over the Internet from an undercover F.B.I. agent posing as a 13-year-old girl.
TERRELL, Tex., Nov. 6 — A prosecutor in this North Texas town killed himself Sunday as the police arrived to arrest him on charges of soliciting sex over the Internet from a person he thought was a 13-year-old boy.
So when GE announced last year that it would be soliciting bids over the Internet, even the smallest, most technophobic of its suppliers listened up.
