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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$: Give or Take? [TEXT][PDF]
  • Custom-ized Cons Calling [TEXT][PDF]
  • Ditch the Pitch : Hanging Up on Telephone Hucksters [TEXT] [PDF]
  • Fraud: Recognize It. Report It. Stop It. [TEXT][PDF]
  • Fraud on the Line: Avoiding “Do Not Call” Scams [TEXT][PDF]
  • FTC Charity Checklist [TEXT][PDF]
  • FTC Names Its Dirty Dozen: 12 Scams Most Likely To Arrive Via Bulk Email [TEXT][PDF]
  • Hang Up On Cross-Border Phone Fraud [TEXT][PDF]
  • Helping Older Consumers Avoid Charity Fraud [TEXT][PDF]
  • Helping Victims of the Terrorist Attacks: Your Guide to Giving Wisely [TEXT][PDF]
  • ID Theft: When Bad Things Happen To Your Good Name [TEXT][PDF]
  • International Lottery Scams [TEXT][PDF]
  • Magazine Subscription Scams [TEXT][PDF]
  • Magazine Renewal Notices [TEXT][RAM][MP3]
  • Medicare Part D Solicitations: Words to the Wise About Fraud [TEXT][PDF]
  • New Spin On Sweepstakes Scams [TEXT][PDF]
  • Now Consumers Can Tell It to the FTC - Toll-Free [TEXT][PDF]
  • Operation Phony Philanthropy: Charity Fraud [TEXT]
  • Prize Offers: You Don’t Have to Pay to Play [TEXT][PDF]
  • Privacy: Tips for Protecting Your Personal Information [TEXT][PDF]
  • Privacy: What You Do Know Can Protect You [TEXT][PDF]
  • Project Mailbox III: Catch the Bandit in Your Mailbox Campaign [TEXT]
  • Private Mail Boxes (audio) [TEXT][RAM][MP3]
  • Public Safety Fund-Raising Appeals: Make Your Donations Count [TEXT][PDF]
  • Putting Cold Calls on Ice [TEXT][PDF]
  • Putting Telephone Scams…On Hold [TEXT][PDF]
  • Q&A: The FTC’s Changes to the Telemarketing Sales Rule [TEXT][PDF]
  • Reloading Scams: Double Trouble for Consumers [TEXT][PDF]
  • A Rose Is A Rose Is A Ruse? Campaign [TEXT]
  • The Truth About Advance-Fee Loan Scams [TEXT][PDF]
  • Straight Talk About Telemarketing [TEXT][PDF]
  • Telemarketing Recovery Scams [TEXT][PDF]
  • Telemarketing Travel Fraud [TEXT][PDF]
  • Travel Scams (audio) [TEXT][RAM][MP3]
  • Toll-Free Telephone Number Scams [TEXT][PDF]
  • Unauthorized Charge$ 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]

  • Business Directory Scams Try to “Give You the Business” [TEXT][PDF]
  • A Business Guide to the Mail and Telephone Order Merchandise 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]

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]

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