| 2. | National Check Fraud Center | | | Providing check fraud information and soliciting reports from victims of check fraud crimes.
www.ckfraud.org |
| 4. | FBI Field Offices | | | Directory of local FBI offices, which have jurisdiction to investigate frauds that violate federal law
www.fbi.gov:80 |
| 5. | FTC: Consumer Protection | | | Information on scams and fraud in consumer areas such as e-commerce, telemarketing, and investments.
www.ftc.gov |
| 6. | Crimes of Persuasion | | | Explaining how people are victimized through telemarketing fraud, investment schemes and consumer scams.
www.crimes-of-persuasion.com |
| 7. | National Futures Association | | | The NFA is a regulatory association of commodities futures merchants, which are brokers who deal with commodities futures. Site includes law and rules that apply to commodities firms and dispute resolution procedures.
www.nfa.futures.org |
| 8. | US Securities and Exchange Commission | | | The official federal agency website includes law, rules, legal releases, and reports relating to the regulation of stockbrokers, securities exchanges, investment advisors, and publicly held companies.
www.sec.gov |
| 9. | Securities Arbitration Commentator | | | Collects and publishes awards in securities arbitration cases. For a charge, will conduct database searches of past awards by arbitrator name, type of case, and other categories.
www.sacarbitration.com |
| 12. | Making a Federal Case of Identity Theft | | | This July 2001 article, by a senior U.S. Department of Justice prosecutor, discusses the ways that identity theft can be committed and what the Justice Department is doing to combat it.
www.usdoj.gov:80 |
| 13. | United States Attorneys | | | Directory of local federal prosecutors with jurisdiction to prosecute frauds that violate federal law
www.usdoj.gov |
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