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one minute of related information from Shirley Rooker, director
of WTOP's Call for Action.
Consumer
Information
- 66 Ways to Save Money [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Advance-Fee Loan Scams Campaign [TEXT]
- Aging Parents and Adult Children Together (A/PACT)
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Are You Getting Telemarketing Calls You Don't Want?
Here's How to Stop Them [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Automatic Debit Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Avoid a School Break Bust [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Avoid Charity Fraud (poster) [PDF]
- Border-Line Scams Are the Real Thing
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Catch the Bandit In Your Mailbox [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Charitable Donation$: Give or Take? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Custom-ized Cons Calling [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Ditch the Pitch : Hanging Up on Telephone Hucksters
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Easy Credit? Not So Fast. The Truth About Advance
Fee Loan Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Fraud: Recognize It. Report It. Stop It.
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Fraud on the Line: Avoiding "Do Not Call"
Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- FTC Charity Checklist [TEXT]
[PDF]
- FTC Names Its Dirty Dozen: 12 Scams Most Likely
To Arrive Via Bulk Email [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Guide to the Federal Trade Commission
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Hang Up On Cross-Border Phone Fraud [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Helping Older Consumers Avoid Charity Fraud
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Helping Victims of the Terrorist
Attacks: Your Guide to Giving Wisely [TEXT]
[PDF]
- ID Theft: When Bad Things Happen To Your Good
Name [TEXT]
[PDF]
- International Lottery Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Magazine Subscription Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Magazine Renewal Notices [TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Now Consumers Can Tell It to the FTC - Toll-Free
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Operation Phony Philanthropy:
Charity Fraud [TEXT]
- Prize Offers: You Don't Have to Pay to Play
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Privacy: Tips for Protecting Your Personal Information
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Privacy: What You Do Know Can Protect You
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Project Mailbox III: Catch the Bandit in Your
Mailbox Campaign [TEXT]
- Private Mail Boxes (audio) [TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Public Safety Fund-Raising Appeals: Make Your
Donations Count [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Putting Cold Calls on Ice [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Putting Telephone Scams...On Hold [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Q&A: The FTC's Changes to the Telemarketing
Sales Rule [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Reloading Scams: Double Trouble for Consumers
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- A Rose Is A Rose Is A Ruse? Campaign
[TEXT]
- Straight Talk About Telemarketing [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Telemarketing Recovery Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Telemarketing Travel Fraud [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Travel Scams (audio) [TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Toll-Free Telephone Number Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Unauthorized Charge$ On Your Phone Bill? [TEXT]
- Unauthorized Charges Crammed onto Your Telephone
Bill? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Unsolicited Mail, Telemarketing and Email: Where
to Go to "Just Say No" [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Wish I Was There Campaign (Operation Trip Trap
- Travel Scams) [TEXT]
- You Make the Call: The FTC's New Telemarketing
Sales Rule [TEXT]
[PDF]
Business
Information
- Avoiding Office Supply Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Businessperson's Guide to the Mail and Telephone
Order Mdse Rule [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Calling All Telemarketers: Amendments to the FTC's
Telemarketing Sales Rule [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Complying with the Telemarketing Sales Rule
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Donating to Public Safety Fund-Raisers
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Five Steps to Avoiding Office Supply Scams
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Guidelines for Managers of Telemarketing Enterprises
Who Sell Magazine Subscriptions [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Project BOSS: Banish Office Supply Scams
[TEXT]
- Project Mailbox III: Catch the Bandit in Your
Mailbox Campaign Business [TEXT]
- Raising Funds? What To Know About Hiring a Professional
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Website Woes: Avoiding Web Service Scams
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- When Yellow Pages Invoices Are Bogus
[TEXT]
[PDF]
Rules
and Acts
- Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention
Act [TEXT]
- Telemarketing Sales Rule [TEXT]
- Telemarketing Sales Rule: Rule Review
[TEXT]
Staff
Comments and Letters
- Staff Report: Fighting Consumer Fraud: New Tools
of the Trade (4/98) [ZIP-WP6]
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Staff Report: Fighting Consumer Fraud: The Challenge
and the Campaign (01/97) [TEXT]
- Staff Summary: Federal Trade Commission Activities
Affecting Older Americans During 1995 and 1996
(3/98) [TEXT]
Enforcement
- Telemarketing Fraud Enforcement Summaries
[TEXT]
Workshops
- Telemarketing Sales Rule: "Do-Not-Call"
Forum [TEXT]
En
Español
- Cinco Pasos para Evitar Estafas de Artículos y
Servicios de Oficina [TEXT]
Five Steps to Avoiding Office Supply Scams
- Cómo Evitar Estafas de Artículos y Servicios de
Oficina [TEXT]
Avoiding Office Supply Scams
- Cómo Hacer Donaciones Recaudadas para Grupos de
Seguridad Pública [TEXT]
Donating to Public Safety Fund-Raisers
- ¿Crédito Fácil? ¡No Tan Rápido! La Verdad sobre
los Créditos con Cargo Adelantado [TEXT]
Easy Credit? Not So Fast! The Truth About Advance-Fee Loans
- Donaciones de Caridad: ¿Quién Toma lo que Usted
Da? [TEXT]
Charitable Donations: Give or Take?
- Registro Nacional "No Llame" - Preguntas
y Respuestas [TEXT]
Q&A: The National Do Not Call Registry
- Su Información Privada: Lo Que Usted Sabe Lo Puede
Proteger [TEXT]
Privacy: What You Do Know Can Protect You
- Su Información Privada: Sugerencias para Proteger
su Información Personal [TEXT]
Privacy: Tips for Protecting Your Personal Information
- Usted Determina Quien Llama: La Nueva Regulación
de Ventas de
Telemercadeo de la FTC [TEXT]
You Make the Call: The FTC's New Telemarketing Sales Rule
Last updated:
Friday, June 25, 2004
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