Phone Scams and Harassment

Where to Report Phone Crime

In USA:

• National Do Not Call Registry 
• Federal Communications Commission (for junk fax reporting, pre-recorded messages, advertising text messages, “abandoned calls”, or phone calls from “spoofed” phone numbers)
• Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (report phone calls from debt collectors, loan companies, credit reporting companies, or any other financial product or service)
• Department of Justice: Office of Diversion Control (report extortion phone calls, calls where the caller impersonates a federal agent, or any scam calls )
• FTC Complaint Assistant (report unwanted text messages, telemarketing calls, robocalls)
• Internet Crime Complaint Center (report online scams)
• Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force (report identity theft, computer based fraud, tax fraud, mail fraud, telemarketing fraud)

In Canada:

• National Do Not Call List (french)
• Canadian Anti-Fraud Center

Information On Known Phone Scams 

• Telemarketing fraud (source: FBI)
• Caller ID and spoofing (source: FCC )
• Robocalls: which ones are legal? (source: FCC)
• Most popular phone scams (source: FTC)
• Debt collection abuses (source: FTC)