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Junk Mail, Email, Fax, Spam

• Junk Mail
  • Reducing Junk Mail (WI Dept. of Financial Institutions)
    How to keep your name off pre-screened lists, which are sold by credit bureaus and then used for mass marketing.
• Spam
  • Complaints about Spam: Unwanted Text Messages & Email (FCC)
    File a complaint if you receive an unwanted commercial voice message, autodialed text message or telephone solicitation.
  • Getting Off Commercial Email Lists (Direct Marketing Association)
  • Spam (Federal Trade Commission)
    Consumer guides on limiting spam, spam scams and protecting your personal information. Business guides on securing your server, requirements for commercial emailers and honoring "remove me" responses. Opportunity to file a complaint and/or forward deceptive spam so FTC can pursue law enforcement actions.
  • Spam Laws
    Access federal, state, European, and other country's laws concerning spam email.
  • Texting Spam: Smishing (WI Dept. of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection)
  • Where to File Complaints (OnGuard Online)
    Learn where to file a complaint if you are the victim of a computer crime.
• Wisconsin Consumer Protection Fact sheets (WI Dept. of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection)
  Telecommunications fact sheets include spam, junk email, phishing, and more.

The Law (Additional statutes, regulations & opinions may apply to your specific situation.)

• WI Statutes: s. 100.174 "Mail Order Sales Regulated"
• WI Statutes: s. 134.72 "Prohibition of Certain Unsolicited Messages by Facsimile Machine"
• WI Statutes: s. 944.25 "Sending Obscene or Sexually Explicit Electronic Messages"
• WI Admin. Code: ATCP 127, sub. ch. 3 "Mail Solicitations"
• CFR: 16 CFR 316 "Can-Spam Rule"
  
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