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Consumer
Information
- A Consumer's Guide to E-Payments [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Ads for International Drivers' Licenses or Permits
Could Be a Dead End [TEXT]
[PDF]
- All Email Users: What You Need to Know About Chain
Emails & Letters [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Being Frank about Search Engine Rank
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Break the Chain [TEXT]
- Bogus July 1 Email Exposed: The Real Deal on Your Credit File Privacy
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Check Overpayment Scams: Seller Beware
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Cost of "Free" Adult Content Adds Up
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Detect, Protect, Disinfect: Consumers Online Face
Wide Choices in Security Products [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Don't Want Your Email Address Harvested?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Dot Cons: FTC's Top 10 Dot Cons [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Electronic Check Conversion [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Electronic Banking [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Email Address Harvesting: How Spammers Reap What
You Sow [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Entertainment Ratings: Pocket Guide [TEXT]
[PDF]
- "Free" and "Low-Cost" PC Offers.
Go Figure. [TEXT] [PDF]
- FTC Names Its Dirty Dozen: 12 Scams Most Likely
To Arrive Via Bulk Email [TEXT] [PDF]
- Going, Going, Gone: Using Wire Transfers for Internet Auction Purchases Can Be Risky
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Going Shopping? Go Global! A Guide for E-Consumers
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Helping Victims of the Terrorist
Attacks: Your Guide to Giving Wisely [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Hide and Go Seek: Finding the Disclosures in "Free"
Internet Service Offers [TEXT] [PDF]
-
Holiday Shopping? How To Be On Guard When You’re Online [TEXT]
[PDF]
- How Not to Get Hooked by a 'Phishing' Scam [TEXT] [PDF]
- How to Protect Kids' Privacy Online [TEXT] [PDF]
- How to Protect Kids' Privacy Online: A Guide for
Teachers [TEXT] [PDF]
- Identity Theft Video News Release [length: 2 mins,
30 sec]
Real
Media: Dial Up Connection
Real
Media: High Speed Connection
Windows
Media: Dial Up Connection
Windows
Media: High Speed Connection
- International Lottery Scams [TEXT] [PDF]
- Internet Auctions: A Guide for Buyer and Sellers
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Is Someone "Phishing" for Your Information?
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Keep Your Email Address Unlisted: There Is No
"National Do Not Email Registry" [TEXT] [PDF]
- Kidz Privacy - Childrens Online Privacy Protection
Act [TEXT]
- The Lowdown on Chain Letters [TEXT] [PDF]
- Medical Billing Business Opportunity Schemes
[TEXT] [PDF]
- 'Net Based Business Opportunities: Are Some Flop-portunities?
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Offers to Treat Biological Threats: What You Need
to Know [TEXT]
[PDF]
- OnGuard Online Website [TEXT] and Bookmark [PDF]
These links will take you from the FTC's website to OnGuardOnline.gov.
OnGuard Online is a partnership between the FTC, other federal agencies, and the technology industry.
- Online Gambling and Kids: A Bad Bet [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Online Investment Opportunities: 'Net Profit or
'Net Gloss? [TEXT] [PDF]
- Online Investment Opportunities: 'Net Profit or
'Net Gloss? Campaign [TEXT]
- Online Shopping Tips - Bookmark [PDF]
- P2P File-Sharing: Evaluating the Risks
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Privacy: Tips for Protecting Your Personal Information
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Privacy: What You Do Know Can Protect You [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Problems With Holiday Purchases? [TEXT] [PDF]
- Ready to Pop Your Top Over "Pop Up Spam?"
Here's How to Make it Stop [TEXT] [PDF]
- Securing Your Wireless Network [TEXT] [PDF]
- Site-Seeing on the Internet: A Consumer's Guide
to Travel in Cyberspace [TEXT]
- Social Networking Sites: A Parent's Guide [TEXT] [PDF]
- Social Networking Sites: Safety Tips for Tweens and Teens [TEXT] [PDF]
- Spyware [TEXT] [PDF]
- Stay Safe Online Postcard [PDF]
- Stop.Think.Click: 7 Practices for Safer Computing [TEXT] [PDF]
- Take Charge: Fighting Back Against Identity Theft
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Taking the "Bait" Out of Rebate
[TEXT] [PDF]
- The "Nigerian" Scam: Costly Compassion
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Trapped in the Tangled Web: Web Scheme Diverts Consumers
from Their Intended Sites [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Traveling in Cyberspace? Be Savvy! Campaign
[TEXT]
- Trial Offers: The Deal Is in the Details
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Unsolicited Mail, Telemarketing and Email: Where
to Go to "Just Say No" [TEXT] [PDF]
- Using Internet Access Products [TEXT] [PDF]
- Video Games: Reading the Ratings on the Games
People Play [TEXT] [PDF]
- VoIP: It’s A Phone, It’s a Computer, It’s ...
[TEXT] [PDF]
- What's Dot and What's Not: Domain Name Registration
Scams [TEXT] [PDF]
- What's In Your In-box? [TEXT] [PDF]
- When Your Computer Calls Overseas ...Without Your
Okay [TEXT] [PDF]
- Who's Spamming Who? Could it Be You?
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Work-at-Home Schemes [TEXT] [PDF]
- Work-at-Home PSA - 10 Seconds (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Work-at-Home PSA - 20 Seconds (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Work-at-Home PSA - 30 Seconds (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Work-at-Home PSA - 60 Seconds (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- You, Your Privacy Policy and COPPA. How to Comply
with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- You’ve Got Spam: How to "Can" Unwanted
Email [TEXT] [PDF]
Business
Information
- Advertising and Marketing on the Internet: The
Rules of the Road [TEXT] [PDF]
- Appliance Labeling Rule Homepage [TEXT]
- BBB-Online: Code of Online Business Practices
[TEXT]
- Big Print. Little Print. What's the Deal? How
to Disclose the Details [TEXT] [PDF]
- A Business Guide to the Mail and Telephone
Order Merchandise Rule [TEXT] [PDF]
- CAN-SPAM Act: Requirements for Commercial Emailers
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Disclosing Energy Efficiency Information: A Guide
for Online Sellers of Appliances [TEXT] [PDF]
- Dot Com Disclosures: Information About Online
Advertising [TEXT] [PDF]
- Electronic Commerce: Selling Internationally.
A Guide for Business [TEXT] [PDF]
- Frequently Asked Questions About the Children's
Online Privacy Protection Rule [TEXT]
- How to Comply With The Children's Online Privacy
Protection Rule [TEXT] [PDF]
- Internet Auctions: A Guide for Buyer and Sellers
[TEXT] [PDF]
- "Remove Me" Responses and Responsibilities:
Email Marketers Must Honor "Unsubscribe" Claims
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Securing Your Server — Shut the Door on
Spam [TEXT] [PDF]
- Security Check: Reducing Risks to Your Computer
Systems [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Selling on the Internet: Prompt Delivery Rules
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Website Woes: Avoiding Web Service Scams
[TEXT] [PDF]
- What's Dot and What's Not: Domain Name Registration
Scams [TEXT] [PDF]
- You, Your Privacy Policy & COPPA
[TEXT]
[PDF]
Cases
- Combating Internet Fraud and Deception (05/01)
[PDF]
- Going, Going, Gone... Law Enforcement Efforts
to Combat Internet Auction Fraud (2/14/00) [PDF]
- Internet Case List (05/01) [PDF]
Public
Comments
- Electronic Signatures In Global And National Commerce
Act (2001) [TEXT]
- Electronic Media Issues [TEXT]
- U.S. Perspectives on Consumer Protection in the
Global Electronic Marketplace [TEXT]
Rules
and Acts
- Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act
[TEXT] [PDF]
Staff
Comments and Letters
- Consumer Privacy in the Online Marketplace (12/96)
[TEXT] [PDF]
- Consumer Privacy in the Online Marketplace (12/96)
Appendices [PDF]
- Fighting Consumer Fraud: New Tools of the Trade
(4/98) [ZIP-WP6] [TEXT] [PDF]
- Fighting Consumer Fraud: The Challenge and the
Campaign (01/97) [TEXT]
- Going, Going, Gone... Law Enforcement Efforts
to Combat Internet Auction Fraud (2/14/00) [TEXT] [PDF]
- Protecting Children's Privacy Under COPPA: A Survey
on Compliance [PDF]
- Privacy Online: A Report to Congress
[TEXT]
- Children and Privacy Online [TEXT]
- Protecting Consumers Online: A Federal Trade Commission
Report on the First Five Years of Its Internet Law Enforcement
Program [PDF]
Testimony
- Chairman Pitofsky: Internet Privacy [TEXT]
- Chairman Pitofsky: Protection of Children's Privacy
on the World Wide Web [TEXT]
- Commissioner Anthony: Children's Online Privacy
[TEXT]
Workshops
& Seminars
- FTC/DOC Esign Workshop: Electronic Signatures
In Global And National Commerce Act (2001) [TEXT]
- Etail dEtails: A Special Seminar on Internet Marketing
(2001) [TEXT]
- The Mobile Wireless Web, Data Services and Beyond:
Emerging Technologies and Consumer Issues
(2000) [TEXT]
- Joint Workshop on Alternative Dispute Resolution
for Online Consumer Transactions (2000) [TEXT]
- U.S. Perspectives on Consumer Protection in the
Global Electronic Marketplace (1999) [TEXT]
- Interpretation of Rules and Guides for Electronic
Media (1999) [TEXT]
- Public Workshop on Consumer Information Privacy
(1997) [TEXT]
- Consumer Privacy on the Global Information Infrastructure
(1996) [TEXT]
- Consumer Protection and the Global Information
Infrastructure Workshop (1995) [TEXT]
Business
Resources
Last updated:
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
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