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:
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)
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