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Telemarketing

Consumer Education

66 Ways to Save Money [TEXT]
Aging Parents and Adult Children Together (A/PACT) [TEXT]
Are You A Target of... Telephone Scams? [TEXT]
Automatic Debit Scams [TEXT]
Avoid a Spring Break Bust Alert [TEXT]
Border-Line Scams Are the Real Thing Alert [TEXT]
Charitable Donation$: Give or Take? [TEXT]
Easy Credit? Not So Fast. The Truth About Advance Fee Loan Scams [TEXT]
FTC Names Its Dirty Dozen: 12 Scams Most Likely To Arrive Via Bulk Email Alert [TEXT]
How To Spot the Bandit in Your Mailbox Alert [TEXT]
International Lottery Scams [TEXT]
It's Your Call: Shopping in the New Telecommunications Marketplace [TEXT]
Just When You Thought It Was Safe... Advance Fee Loan "Sharks" Alert [TEXT]
Magazine Subscription Scams [TEXT]
Operation False Alarm Campaign [TEXT]
Operation Missed Giving Campaign [TEXT]
Prize Offers [TEXT]
Project LoanShark II: Advance-Fee Loan Scams Campaign [TEXT]
Project Mailbox II: Wanted: The Bandit in Your Mailbox Campaign [TEXT]
Public Safety Fund-Raising Appeals: Make Your Donations Count Alert [TEXT]
Putting Cold Calls on Ice Alert [TEXT]
Reloading Scams: Double Trouble for Consumers [TEXT]
A Rose Is A Rose Is A Ruse? Campaign [TEXT]
Spread the Word About Telemarketing Fraud Campaign [TEXT]
Straight Talk About Telemarketing [TEXT]
Telemarketing Recovery Scams [TEXT]
Telemarketing Travel Fraud [TEXT]
Traveler's Advisory: Get What You Pay For Alert [TEXT]
Wanted: The Mailbox Bandit Brief [TEXT]
Wanted: The Bandit In Your Mailbox [TEXT]
Wish I Was There Campaign [TEXT]
Y2K? Y 2 Care: New Consumer Alert Offers Tips for Protecting Your Finances from Year 2000 Scam Artists [TEXT]

En Español

Solicitud de Fondos para la Seguridad Pública: Cuidado con los Donativos
Public Safety Fund-Raising Appeals: Make Your Donations Count
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Business Education

A Business Guide to the FTC Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule [TEXT]
Avoiding Office Supply Scams [TEXT]
Complying with the Telemarketing Sales Rule [TEXT]
Donating to Public Safety Fund-Raiser$ [TEXT]
Operation False Alarm Campaign [TEXT]
Operation Missed Giving Campaign [TEXT]
Raising Funds? What To Know About Hiring a Professional [TEXT]
When Yellow Pages Invoices Are Bogus Alert [TEXT]

Rules and Acts

Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act [TEXT]
Telemarketing Sales Rule [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]

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Last Updated: Monday, March 29, 1999