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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. 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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