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• - Offers advice on how to stop paper junk mail, spam and telemarketing and includes a listing of Federal laws.
  
• - Broadcast fax companies are wasting your time and money by sending you unsolicited faxes! Get back at one company who influenced California legislators to shelve a bill that would fine them heavily!
  
• - Article giving the "good news" and "bad news" about new laws related to telemarketing.
  
• - U.S. Laws on Telemarketing - Telemarketing, past, present and future
  
• - 3 steps to end junk mail. Also offers success stories and action alerts.
  
• - Stop the invasion of privacy that arrives daily via mailbox and telephone. Protect your elders from those who prey on vulnerable seniors.
  
• - Information on telemarketing laws and what you need to sue telemarketers and junk faxers in small claims court.
  
• - Offers ways to get your name off telemarketer's calling lists and stop unwanted junk mail & email.
  
• - A free service for area residents which submits 'do-not-call' requests to telemarketers.
  
• - Formed to raise public awareness about fraudulent telephone solicitations.
  
• - Bill Mason's essay, published under the Open Content Principles License.
  
• - Consumer education on telemarketing from the Federal Trade Commission.
  
• - A free service for businesses to remove former employees from direct mail lists. Reduces frustration of dealing with junk mail and saves trees/environment.
  
• - Provides free caller ID software that stop telemarketer calls.
  
• - Resources for stopping illegal, unsolicited 'junk' faxes
  
• - 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.
  
• - Lists descriptions of companies and services with links.
  
• - A free guide to reducing unwanted or intrusive advertising.
  
• - Remove your name from mail, telephone and e-mail marketing lists.
  
• - Offers Caller ID modem software that blocks telemarketing or other unsolicited calls. Includes download requirements.
  
• - Information, statistics, arrests and news on phone fraud and scams.
  
• - The amount of money that consumers are losing to fraudulent telemarketers in credit-related schemes is on the rise.
  
• - Inappropriate Telemarketing Practices and Legitimate Uses of Telemarketing.
  
• - Offers a way to stop junk mail, junk phone calls, spam and bulk mail.
  
• - Simple steps to help stop spam, telemarketers, and to prevent identity theft. Includes state-by-state rights and regulations.