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Protecting Yourself from Consumer Fraud

Protecting Yourself from Consumer Fraud

This page will guide you to useful tools and tips for protecting yourself from consumer fraud.

 

  • Advance Fee Loans
  • Art Fraud
  • Auto Repair Fraud
  • Automobile Repossession
  • Business Opportunities
  • Buying A New Car
  • Buying A Used Car
  • Car Ads
  • Car Financing
  • Car Leasing
  • Car Rental
  • Carpet Cleaners
  • Caskets and Burial Vaults
  • Charitable Solicitations
  • Checking Account Numbers
  • Chronic and Persistent Car Trouble
  • Cool-Off Rule
  • Cosigning A Loan
  • Cosmetic Surgery
  • Credit Card Bills
  • Credit Card Fraud
  • Credit Repair and Debt Relief Services
  • Dance Studios
  • Debt Collection
  • Electronic Equipment and Repair
  • Eyeglasses and Contact Lenses
  • Fair Credit Reporting
  • Food Advertising/Labeling
  • Foreign Lottery
  • "Gas Saving" Products
  • Gemstone Investment Schemes
  • Going Out of Business
  • "Gold" Credit Cards
  • Health Studios
  • Health Fraud
  • Holiday Buying
  • Identity Theft
  • Infomercials
  • Internet Email
  • Internet Shopping
  • Investing In Precious Metals
  • Investing in Wireless Cable
  • Invention Promotion Firms
  • Job Listing and Job Search Firms
  • Land Sales Scams
  • Lawn Service Contracts
  • Lottery Fraud
  • Mortgage Foreclosures
  • Movers
  • Multilevel Marketing
  • Negative Option Marketing Plans
  • Nigerian 419
  • Odometer Fraud
  • Overpayment Scams
  • Overseas Job Firms
  • Phishing
  • Ponzi schemes
  • Price Gouging After A Hurricane
  • Rain Checks
  • Rare Coin Investment Schemes
  • Real Estate Brokers
  • Recovery Room Scams
  • Service Contracts
  • Small Business Scams
  • Sweepstakes
  • Shopping By Mail Or Phone
  • Smoking Cures
  • SPAM
  • Tax Evasion Schemes
  • Telemarketing
  • Title Loans
  • Toy Ads On TV
  • Timeshare Sales and Resales
  • Unordered Merchandise
  • Unsolicited Facsimile Transmissions
  • Vacation Certificates
  • Varicose Vein Treatments
  • Water Treatment Devices
  • Weight Loss Programs
  • Work-At-Home Schemes
  • Worthless Bank Checks
  • Yellow Pages Invoice Scam
  • "800" Prefix Telephone Services
  • "900" Prefix Telephone Services

For additional information on protecting yourself from consumer fraud please visit our Consumer Links page.

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