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The Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing & Electronic Commerce Formed to raise public awareness about fraudulent telephone solicitations. http://www.fraud.org/aaft/aaftinfo.htm

Consumer Help Remove your name from mail, telephone and e-mail marketing lists. http://www.dmaconsumers.org

Dealing with telemarketing Inappropriate Telemarketing Practices and Legitimate Uses of Telemarketing. http://www.scn.org/~bk269/telemarketing.html

Declare Your Independence from Junk Mail 3 steps to end junk mail. Also offers success stories and action alerts. http://www.newdream.org/junkmail/

EcoLogical Mail Coalition A free service for businesses to remove former employees from direct mail lists. Reduces frustration of dealing with junk mail and saves trees/environment. http://www.ecologicalmail.org/

Good Resources for Opting Out From Telemarketers and Junk Mail Lists descriptions of companies and services with links. http://www.pruittfamily.com/paul/optout.htm

Junk Busters U.S. Laws on Telemarketing - Telemarketing, past, present and future http://www.junkbusters.com/ht/en/fcc.html

Junk Mail and the Art of Hype Bill Mason's essay, published under the Open Content Principles License. http://www.ohno.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/pages/Junk%20mail.htm

Junk Mail Stopper Offers advice on how to stop paper junk mail, spam and telemarketing and includes a listing of Federal laws. http://www.junkmailstopper.com

junkfaxes.org Resources for stopping illegal, unsolicited 'junk' faxes http://www.junkfaxes.org/

Obviously.com A free guide to reducing unwanted or intrusive advertising. http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/

Phone Busters Information, statistics, arrests and news on phone fraud and scams. http://www.phonebusters.com/

Stop SPAM and Telemarketers Simple steps to help stop spam, telemarketers, and to prevent identity theft. Includes state-by-state rights and regulations. http://stopspam.inpacifica.com

Stop Telemarketing Calls Provides free caller ID software that stop telemarketer calls. http://www.anti-telemarketing.com

TCPALaw Information on telemarketing laws and what you need to sue telemarketers and junk faxers in small claims court. http://www.tcpalaw.com

Top Ten Telemarketing Scams The amount of money that consumers are losing to fraudulent telemarketers in credit-related schemes is on the rise. http://www.natlconsumersleague.org/top10telemarketingscams.html

TravelASSIST Magazine - Beware of Telemarketing Scams Article giving the "good news" and "bad news" about new laws related to telemarketing. http://www.travelassist.com/mag/a55.html

Unwanted Telephone Marketing Calls Information from the Federal Communications Commission, with instructions on a free registration process for adding your phone number to a national do-not-call list. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/tcpa.html