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• Business: Marketing and Advertising: Telemarketing  (99)

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 futur.

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' faxe.

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.

Stop the Marketing Assault - - Stop the invasion of privacy that arrives daily via mailbox and telephone. Protect your elders from those who prey on vulnerable seniors.

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

Telemarketing - - Consumer education on telemarketing from the Federal Trade Commission.

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.