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Free Publications for Businesses About Email Scams, Data Security, Internet Frauds, Identity Theft and How to Report Frauds

Now you can get free, useful free information about internet and data security from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for your business.  The publications are either in a plain text format, a PDF file (which prints just like the original publication) and in a few cases, a RAM or MP3 for an audio file that features one minute of related information from Shirley Rooker, director of WTOP's Call for Action.  If you want the PDF version, you'll need Adobe's free reader, which is loaded on most pc's these days already.  If not, you can obtain the free version here, from CNET or Adobe.

This information is direct from the Federal Trade Commission's website!

Advertising and Marketing

  • Internet
    • Advertising and Marketing on the Internet: The Rules of the Road [TEXT] [PDF]
    • CAN-SPAM Act: Requirements for Commercial Emailers [TEXT] [PDF]
    • Dot Com Disclosures: Information About Online Advertising [TEXT] [PDF]
    • Electronic Commerce: Selling Internationally. A Guide for Business [TEXT] [PDF]
    • "Remove Me" Responses and Responsibilities: Email Marketers Must Honor "Unsubscribe" Claims [TEXT] [PDF]
  • Telemarketing
    • A Business Guide to the Mail and Telephone Order Merchandise Rule [TEXT] [PDF]
    • Calling All Telemarketers: Amendments to the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule [TEXT] [PDF]
    • Complying with the Telemarketing Sales Rule [TEXT] [PDF]
    • Guidelines for Managers of Telemarketing Enterprises Who Sell Magazine Subscriptions [TEXT] [PDF]
  • Non-Internet
    • Business Directory Scams Try to "Give You the Business" [TEXT] [PDF]
    • A Business Guide to the Mail and Telephone Order Merchandise Rule [TEXT] [PDF]
    • Big Print. Little Print. What's the Deal? How to Disclose the Details [TEXT] [PDF]
    • Complying with the Telemarketing Sales Rule [TEXT] [PDF]

Business Practices

  • BBB-Online: Code of Online Business Practices [TEXT]
  • Selling on the Internet: Prompt Delivery Rules [TEXT] [PDF]
  • TooLate.Com: The Lowdown on Late Internet Shipments [TEXT] [PDF]

Product Labeling

  • Appliance Labeling Rule Homepage [TEXT]
  • Disclosing Energy Efficiency Information: A Guide for Online Sellers of Appliances [TEXT] [PDF]

Children and advertising

  • 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]

Business Security and Technology

  • Project Mailbox III: Catch the Bandit in Your Mailbox Campaign Business [TEXT]
    Securing Your Server — Shut the Door on Spam [TEXT] [PDF]
  • Security Check: Reducing Risks to Your Computer Systems [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]

Office Equipment and Supplies

  • Avoiding Office Supply Scams [TEXT] [PDF]
  • Donating to Public Safety Fund-Raisers [TEXT] [PDF]
  • Five Steps to Avoiding Office Supply Scams [TEXT] [PDF]
  • Project BOSS: Banish Office Supply Scams [TEXT]

Finance and Capital

  • Raising Funds? What To Know About Hiring a Professional [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]

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