LibGuides: Financial Literacy: Consumer Rights & Identity Theft

Identity Theft & Scams

FBI- Common Fraud Schemes
FBI's list of popular money scams
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) - Frauds, Scams and Alerts
Detailed types of telephone scams to be aware of
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - Scam Alert
Latest money scams or browse by topic
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) - Fraud and Scam
Features resources that help explain the basics of fraud and define key terms, as well as how-to guides
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - Privacy, Identity & Online Security
Resources and tips on protecting your privacy and identity online
FTC - Identity Theft
Directions on how to report identity theft; also features a recovery plan and FTC supported forms and letter used to recover after identity theft
Avoiding Identity Theft
a film "Produced by John Wiley & Sons, In Digital Literacy For Dummies Social Media and Computing Security Course (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2017), 2 minutes"

Center for Digital Democracy (CDD)
Promotes openness and diversity of the Internet; encourages the development of noncommercial, public interest programming
Consumer Federation of America (CFA)
Advocacy organization working to advance pro-consumer policy on a variety of issues
Consumers Union
Publisher of Consumer Reports; independent, nonprofit testing and information organization serving consumers
National Consumers League
Promotes the welfare of consumers, wage earners, and income recipients least able to protect themselves
U.S. Public Interest Research Group
Acts as a watchdog for the public interest in the nation's capital