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These FTC Consumer Alerts offer tips on
how to recognize and avoid scams, as well as advice on other
consumer issues.
- Ads Promising Debt Relief May Be Offering Bankruptcy
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- After a Disaster: Repairing Your Home [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Answering the Knock of a Business 'Opp'
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Are You Getting Telemarketing Calls You Don't Want?
Here's How to Stop Them [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Avoid a School Break Bust [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Avoiding Home Equity Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Avoiding the Muscle Hustle: Tips for Buying Exercise
Equipment [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Beloved...Bejeweled...Be Careful: What to Know Before
You Buy Jewelry [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Biothreats - Are Claims To Treat Really Just A Trick?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Bogus July 1 Email Exposed: The Real Deal on Your
Credit File Privacy [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Bogus Medical Discount Plans: A Bitter Pill [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Border-Line Scams Are the Real Thing [TEXT]
[PDF]
- The Bottom Line About Multilevel Marketing Plans
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Buying a Janitorial Services Franchise: Making a
Clean Sweep [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Buying a Used Car [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Buying a Washing Machine? It's a Load-ed Question
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Buying Cashmere? Avoid Pulled Wool [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Buying Genuine American Indian Arts and Crafts
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Buying Gold and Gemstone Jewelry: The Heart of the
Matter [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Can Anti-Snoring Claims Be Cause for Alarm?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Cancellation of Private Mortgage Insurance: Federal
Law May Save You Hundreds of Dollars Each Year [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Cigars: No Such Thing As a Safe Smoke [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Computers For Next to Nothing: What's the Deal?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Cooling Your Home: Don't Sweat It [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Cost of "Free" Adult Content Adds Up
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit Card Loss Protection Offers: They're the
Real Steal [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit Insurance: Is It for You? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Credit Repair: Help Yourself First [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Custom-ized Cons Calling [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Detect, Protect, Disinfect: Consumers Online Face
Wide Choices in Security Products [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Driving Overseas? Steer Clear of Bogus International
Driving Permits [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Dialing Up to the Internet: How to Stay Safe Online
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Dubious "Gas-Saving"
Gadgets Can Drive You to Distraction [TEXT]
- Eco-Speak: A User's Guide to the Language of Recycling
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Electronic Commerce: Selling Internationally. A Guide
for Business [TEXT]
[PDF]
- FCC License Auctions [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Federal and Postal Job Scams: Tip-offs to Rip-offs
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Five Steps to Avoiding Office Supply Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Fraud on the Line: Avoiding "Do Not Call"
Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- 'Free Grants': Don't Take Them For Grant-ed
[TEXT] [PDF]
- "Free" and "Low-Cost" PC Offers.
Go Figure. [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Free Trial Offers: Timing is Everything [TEXT]
[PDF]
- FTC Explains 'Made in USA' Standard To Confirm Consumer
Confidence [TEXT]
[PDF]
- FTC Names Its Dirty Dozen: 12 Scams Most Likely To
Arrive Via Bulk Email [TEXT]
[PDF]
- FTC Offers RN Application Online [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Gas-Saving Products: Proceed with Caution [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Getting Business Credit [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Getting Purse-onal [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Getting the Clear Picture on Lasik Eye Surgery
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- The Gifting Club "Gotcha" [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Going Shopping? Go Global! A Guide for E-Consumers
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Green Card Lottery Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Guide to the Federal Trade Commission [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Helping Victims of the Terrorist Attacks: Your Guide
to Giving Wisely [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Hide and Go Seek: Finding the Disclosures in "Free"
Internet Service Offers [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Hoax Targets Elderly African Americans Alert
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Holiday Shopping: Is a Sale Price Your Best Deal?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Home Equity Loans: The Three-Day Cancellation Rule
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Home Insulation Basics: Higher R-Values = Higher
Insulating Values [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Home-Use Tests For HIV Can Be Inaccurate, FTC Warns
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- How to Avoid Losing Your Money to Investment Frauds[TEXT]
[PDF]
- How To Be Penny Wise, Not Pump Fuelish [TEXT]
[PDF]
- How to Catch the Bandit in Your Mailbox [TEXT]
[PDF]
- How Not to Get Hooked by a 'Phishing' Scam
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Is Someone "Phishing" for Your Information?
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Identity Crisis... What to Do If Your Identity Is
Stolen [TEXT]
[PDF]
- In-FUR-mation Alert: How to Comply with the Fur Products
Labeling Act [TEXT]
[PDF]
- International Lottery Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Internet Auctions: Secrets of Success [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Investing in Rare Coins [TEXT]
- Jingle Bells, Jingle Sells: Tips for Holiday Shopping
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Just When You Thought It Was Safe... Adv. Fee Loan
"Sharks" [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Keep Your Email Address Unlisted: There Is No
"National Do Not Email Registry" [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Kitchen Gadgets Offer Food for "Thaw-t"
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Lights! Camera! Rip-Off! How to Tell When a Scam
is Born [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Long Distance Deals [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Look Before You Lease [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Lotions and Potions: The Bottom Line About Multilevel
Marketing Plans [TEXT]
[PDF]
- The Lowdown on Chain Letters [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Make Sure Living Trust Offers Are Trust-worthy
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- More Than Once Upon a Mattress: Used Bedding Labeling
Rules [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Need a Loan? Think Twice About Using Your Home as
Collateral [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Negative Credit Can Squeeze a Job Search [TEXT]
[PDF]
- 'Net Based Business Opportunities: Beware of
Flop-portunities? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- The "Nigerian" Scam: Costly Compassion
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Now Consumers Can Tell It to the FTC - Toll-Free
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Offers to Treat Biological Threats: What You Need
to Know [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Online Auctions: Bidders Be Wary
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Online Gambling and Kids: A Bad Bet [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Online Investment Opportunities: 'Net Profit
or 'Net Gloss? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- OUCH...Students Getting Stung Trying to Find $$$
for College [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Out of Work? How to Deal with Creditors [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Paunch Lines: Weight Loss Claims Are No Joke For
Dieters [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Payday Loans = Costly Cash [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Petal Pushers: Is Your 'Local' Florist Really
Long-Distance? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Phone, E-Mail, and Pager Messages May Signal Costly
Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Privacy: Tips for Protecting Your Personal Information
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Privacy: What You Do Know Can Protect You [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Problems With Holiday Purchases? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Public Safety Fund-Raising Appeals: Make Your Donations
Count [PDF]
- Putting Cold Calls on Ice [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Q&A: The FTC's Changes to the Telemarketing
Sales Rule [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Radiation Shields: Do They 'Cell' Consumers Short?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Reverse Mortgages--Cashing In On Home Ownership
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Rx for Products that Claim to Prevent SARS?
A Healthy Dose of Skepticism [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Safeguarding Customers' Personal Information:
A Requirement for Financial Institutions [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Selling 'American-Made' Products? What Businesses
Need to Know About Making Made in USA Claims [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Selling on the Internet: Prompt Delivery Rules
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Shopping for a Home Equity Loan? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Spotting Sweet-Sounding Promises of Fraudulent Invention
Promotion Firms [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Spyware [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Sun-Protective Clothing: Wear It Well [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Take Charge of Your Credit [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Taking the "Bait" Out of Rebates [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Taxpayers With IRA's: FYI: IRS Does Not
Approve IRA Investments [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Thinking About a Home Improvement? Don't Get
Nailed [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Tip-offs to Rip-offs (also in Spanish)
[PDF]
- Trapped in the Tangled Web: Web Scheme Diverts Consumers
from Their Intended Sites [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Traveler's Advisory: Get What You Pay For
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- The Truth About Impotence Treatment Claims [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Unauthorized Charges Crammed onto Your Telephone
Bill? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Unsolicited Mail, Telemarketing and Email: Where
to Go to "Just Say No" [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Up In Smoke: The Truth About Tar and Nicotine Ratings
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Using Internet Access Products [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Virtual "Treatments" Can Be Real-World
Deceptions [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Wash Daze: Laundry Gadgets Won't Lighten the
Load [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Weathering the High Cost of Heating Your Home
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Website Woes: Avoiding Web Service Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- What's Dot and What's Not: Domain Name Registration
Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- What's in Your In-Box? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- When to Ditch the Cold Call Pitch [TEXT]
[PDF]
- When Yellow Pages Invoices Are Bogus [TEXT]
[PDF]
- When Your Computer Calls Overseas ...Without Your
Okay [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Who's Spamming Who? Could it Be You?
[TEXT] [PDF]
Last Updated:
Tuesday, October 12, 2004
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