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National Fraud Information Center: Telemarketing Fraud
URL: http://www.fraud.org/telemarketing/teleinfo.htm

Description:
Tips for identifying and avoiding different types of telemarketing fraud and scams. Features general telemarketing fraud tips (in English and Spanish) for advance fee loans, buyers clubs, magazine sales, prizes and sweepstakes, travel fraud, work-at-home scams, and more. Also includes material about fighting fraud against the elderly, scams against business, and telemarketing fraud statistics (from the mid-1990s through mid-2000s). Online complaint form is not available. From the National Consumers League.

Publisher:
National Fraud Information Center

Extra Keywords
telephone

LII Database Information:
Record 25663 created by Maria Brandt on 03/10/2008
Last modification on 03/19/2008
Published: 03/19/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25663