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Other Resources to Help Prevent, Understand or Recover From Scams
Other Resources to Help Prevent, Understand or Recover From Scams
The additional resources linked below may help you to uncover a scam,
understand a scam or protect yourself from scams.
- Search the FTC database to see
if a particular company or product has been investigated for false
advertising, defective products or other trade issues? Just search the
Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) database.
- What to do if you think you have already been the victim of a fraud or identity theft
- Click here for State and Local Consumer Protection Agencies,
Master List
for the United States - If you are looking for the best local consumer
protection agency to use to report a scam, seek advice, to obtain assistance
in resolving a dispute, this list has the contact information!
- If you are looking for your local FBI Office Listings to report a crime or scam, click here.
- Guidance about how to protect yourself
- Links, phone numbers and sign up information for the
National Do-Not-Call List and
the credit card offers opt-out list
- Consumer Rights: Common misconceptions
- Domain extension List - Country Codes explained
- Email headers - how to see
them and understand what they tell you about who sent that email!
- Telephone country codes
- sorted by code number - find out in which country the scammer's phone
number is registered.
- Telephone country codes
- sorted alphabetically, by country name - find out in which country the
scammer's phone number is registered.
- Recommendations about which products work best for anti-spyware, anti-adware, ant-virus, etc. and
links to discounted prices.
- Information about the latest scams, frauds and
identity theft attempts