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Be vigilant about FRAUD


Even if you're not sure it's fraud, you can still contact one of the agencies below to talk to someone. Various offices maintain files of information on companies that have been or are currently under investigation.

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  • Aging Parents and Adult Children Together (A/PACT) Consumer Fraud Against The Elderly

  • Consumer Response Center
    Federal Trade Commission
    Washington, DC 20580
    (202) FTC-HELP (382-4357); TDD: (202) 326-2502
    Or click here to submit an online complaint

  • National Consumers League
    1701 K Street, NW
    Washington, DC 20006
    (202) 835-3323

    Tips on Telemarketing fraud - The National Consumers League and the American Association of Retired Persons conducted research on telemarketing fraud targeting the elderly and offer suggestions for older people and their families in a brochure,Partners Training They Can't Hang Up, available from the National Consumers League

  • The Administration on Aging (AoA) is dedicated to promoting consumer awareness, preventing elder victimization, and working to implement community partnerships to prevent Medicare and Medicaid fraud, error, and abuse. By informing and training senior volunteers, aging network personnel, and health care providers, AoA wants to make older Americans and their advocates better health care consumers.

  • Tennessee Attorney General

    The attorney general is the chief legal officer of the state. Through his staff, he represents the interests of the state in a variety of areas. Officers and agencies of the state are represented by the attorney general in all civil litigation before state and federal courts. The district attorneys prosecute most criminal cases at the trial level. The attorney general prosecutes all criminal cases in the appellate courts and exercises original prosecutorial powers in the areas of securities and state contract fraud. The attorney general has the authority to institute ouster proceedings and civil actions for antitrust violations, consumer fraud and environmental enforcement

  • FBI

  • Health fraud and the elderly

  • Quackwatch - an extensive list of scams and fraud alerts

  • Consumer Fraud - Identity theft
    Click here for additional warnings.
  • Consumer Protection for the Elderly - extensive lists of links

  • Elder Fraud
    Tips for Seniors regarding fraud

  • Internet Fraud Complaint Center

  • State of Tennessee Consumer Protection Office
    David McCollum, Director
    Division of Consumer Affairs
    5th Floor
    500 James Robertson Parkway
    Nashville, TN 37243-0600
    615-741-4737
    Toll free in TN: 1-800-342-8385
    Fax: 615-532-4994

  • Elder Abuse Resources


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