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.
- Reducing
Junk Mail (WI Dept. of Financial Institutions)
- 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. - State laws relating to unsolicited commercial or bulk email (NCSL)
- Texting Spam: Smishing (WI Dept. of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection)
- Computer Crime Complaints (Federal Trade Commission)
Learn where to file a complaint if you are the victim of a computer crime.
- Complaints about Spam: Unwanted Text Messages & Email (FCC)
- 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"
Search for more statutes, regulations & opinions.
Related Topics
Law Review Articles
- Spam Still Pays: the Failure of the CAN-SPAM Act
Harvard Jnl on Legislation 165 (Wntr 2008)