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• - Explaining how people are victimized through telemarketing fraud, investment schemes and consumer scams.
  
• - Providing check fraud information and soliciting reports from victims of check fraud crimes.
  
• - This July 2001 article, by a senior U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor, discusses the ways that identity theft can be committed and what the Justice Department is doing to combat it.
  
• - The FTC site includes law and rules on consumer protection and anti-trust.
  
• - The NFA is a regulatory association of commodities futures merchants, which are brokers who deal with commodities futures. Site includes law and rules that apply to commodities firms and dispute resolution procedures.
  
• - CFTC website includes law, rules, and other information about commodities futures and trading.
  
• - U.S. Postal Inspection service information about consumer fraud.
  
• - Information and links about many kinds of fraud.
  
• - Directory of local FBI offices, which have jurisdiction to investigate frauds that violate federal law
  
• - Information and links for internet fraud, telemarketing fraud, mortgage scams, identity theft, and other consumer frauds.