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Protect your community by reporting fraud, scams, and bad business practices.
Scams happen online, by mail, phone, text, social media, in person, and through new emerging technologies. USAGov's where to report a scam tool helps you find the best agency or organization to report the scam.
By phone: Call 1-888-382-1222 or TTY: 1-866-290-4236. The registry will stop calls from most legitimate companies, but it will not stop scammers. And you will still receive calls from charities and companies you have done business with in the past.
Use call blocking. Visit ftc.gov/calls to learn to block calls on your cell phone and home phone. The FTC continues to go after the companies and scammers behind these calls, so please report unwanted calls at donotcall.gov. If you’ve lost money to a scam call, tell us at ReportFraud.ftc.gov.
What to do about unwanted calls, emails, and text messages that can be annoying, might be illegal, and are probably scams.
Start your complaint. You will need to select “unwanted calls/texts” as the Phone Issue and then “all other unwanted calls/messages” as the sub-issue. If you received an unwanted call from an international number in a format other than 555-555-5555, you can report the number in the “Additional Information” field on the complaint ...
If you would like to report fraud, please contact the appropriate investigative agency as follows: Consumer Fraud and Identity Theft. Contact the Federal Trade Commission at 1-877-FTC-HELP, 1-877-ID-THEFT, or online at https://ReportFraud.ftc.gov/#/?orgcode=TFMICF. Disaster-Related Fraud.