Thread: Stop Unwanted Mail, E-Mail, Calls

Stop Unwanted Mail, E-Mail, Calls

If you want to stop receiving junk mail, e-mail, and telephone solicitations you can register to have them discontinued.

To stop mail advertisements, visit www.dmachoice.org

To stop credit card offers, call (888) 567-8688 or visit www.optoutprescreen.com

To stop catalogs, call the number on the specific catalog or visit www.catalogchoice.org

State and federal laws forbid individuals and companies from sending commercial e-mail in many instances. Violators can be reported to the Federal Trade Commission by sending an e-mail to spam@uce.gov

Finally, you may register your home and cell phone numbers with the National Do Not Call Registry by calling (888) 382-1222 or visiting www.DoNotCall.gov

www.senate.ca.gov/kehoe

Thank you very much for this information.....................I can sure use it!!

SPAM

Do you receive lots of junk email messages from people you don't know? It's no surprise if you do. As more people use email, marketers are increasingly using email messages to pitch their products and services. Some consumers find unsolicited commercial email - also known as "spam" - annoying and time consuming; others have lost money to bogus offers that arrived in their email in-box.

This website has information about the Federal Trade Commission's recent law enforcement actions against deceptive commercial email and spammers' responsibilities under the CAN-SPAM law. In the "For Consumers" section, you'll find tips on how to reduce the amount of spam email in your in-box.

If you get spam email that you think is deceptive, forward it to spam@uce.gov . The FTC uses the spam stored in this database to pursue law enforcement actions against people who send deceptive email.

http://www.ftc.gov/spam/

. . . By as early as mid-September, you should be able to connect to Nomorobo.com for a service developed by software programmer Aaron Foss, who won $25,000 in the FTC's challenge for a robocalls solution.

By signing on, free, calls that come into your phone also are directed to Nomorobo's smart service, which analyzes frequency and blocks calls on a black list of known offender numbers. It isn't 100% foolproof, but it's an extra layer of protection . . .

@ http://www.alipac.us/f19/many-robocalls-scams-286193/

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