Junk Mail and Telemarketing

• Business: Marketing and Advertising: Telemarketing  (83)

The Alliance Against Fraud in Telemarketing & Electronic Commerce - Formed to raise public awareness about fraudulent telephone solicitations.

Consumer Help - Remove your name from mail, telephone and e-mail marketing lists.

Dealing with telemarketing - Inappropriate Telemarketing Practices and Legitimate Uses of Telemarketing.

Declare Your Independence from Junk Mail - 3 steps to end junk mail. Also offers success stories and action alerts.

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.

Good Resources for Opting Out From Telemarketers and Junk Mail - Lists descriptions of companies and services with links.

Junk Busters - U.S. Laws on Telemarketing - Telemarketing, past, present and future

Junk Mail and the Art of Hype - Bill Mason's essay, published under the Open Content Principles License.

Junk Mail Stopper - Offers advice on how to stop paper junk mail, spam and telemarketing and includes a listing of Federal laws.

junkfaxes.org - Resources for stopping illegal, unsolicited 'junk' faxes

Obviously.com - A free guide to reducing unwanted or intrusive advertising.

Phone Busters - Information, statistics, arrests and news on phone fraud and scams.

Stop SPAM and Telemarketers - Simple steps to help stop spam, telemarketers, and to prevent identity theft. Includes state-by-state rights and regulations.

Stop Telemarketing Calls - Provides free caller ID software that stop telemarketer calls.

TCPALaw - Information on telemarketing laws and what you need to sue telemarketers and junk faxers in small claims court.

Top Ten Telemarketing Scams - The amount of money that consumers are losing to fraudulent telemarketers in credit-related schemes is on the rise.

TravelASSIST Magazine - Beware of Telemarketing Scams - Article giving the "good news" and "bad news" about new laws related to telemarketing.

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.