There are a lot of organizations that can help you fight spam, whether its on the computer, on your tablet or on your phone. While we cannot recommend any type of products or services (due to liability and hackers) we can tell you that every year, we look at the reviews from "Consumer Reports" and "PCmag" and we have found them to be good reviewers.
If you know of a great website, then submit it to our Promotion Staff, and we will check it out. If we think it is good information, then we will post it here.
One of the things you should be made aware of if we find that companies admit to either renting out or selling your information: As of right now, we were notified that Guarantee Reserve Life Insurance Company sent out a mailing stating that they rent out their customer lists, so if you have a policy, this might be of interest.
If you receive some of the following emails that seam to be from a scammer, the following agencies have set up a specific place to report them to:One of the things you should be made aware of if we find that companies admit to either renting out or selling your information:
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- Report IRS Phishing and Online Scams |
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- U.S. Department of the Treasury (Covid Payment Scams) |
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- National Center for Disaster Fraud (coronavirus scams and other scams about disasters and emergencies.) |
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- Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)(Report fake websites, emails, malware, and other internet scams) |
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- EConsumer.gov (Victims of International Scams) |
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- Department of Financial Institutions (Banking Issues) |
For more information on Scammers/email scams or who to contact regarding some other types, check out our "Spam Organizations page.
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