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Explanation: If you do exact-phrase Google searches for "of unsolicited goods and services" and "provision of unsolicited services," you'll find a number of statutes from Ireland, Australia, the UK and the USA, showing different ways in which laws that prohibit this activity are worded. The words above are used in some laws. When it's "goods and services", I think "sending" (through the mail) or "sale of" or "requiring the purchase of" (as an un-asked-for add-on to some other purchase) are more usual, but for services alone, "provision".
Things like "foisting upon" and "forcing to purchase" are OK for describing the activity, but I don't think they would appear in the statutes.
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Actually, "requiring the purchase of" works just as well for services alone, as for goods and services.