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Finding information about Junk Fax companies

There are numerous ways to search for info about junk fax companies on the internet. For example, if you have the company name, you can search on the California Secretary of State's website (if a it's corporation)....read more

Filing a Complaint With the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the federal regulatory agency responsible for overseeing junk faxers under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. Follow these steps and learn how to file a complaint against your junk faxer....read more

How to Use a Federal Law to Make Junk Faxers Pay You*

A federal law makes it illegal to send an unsolicited commercial advertisement to a fax machine from anywhere in the U.S.A. Yet "junk faxing" is still a problem. The federal law gives people who receive junk faxes the right to sue for at least $500 per fax. In most cases, the law authorizes courts to award up to $1,500 per fax. ...read more

COMMONLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT JUNK FAXING

Q. What is a "junk fax?" A. A junk fax is like a piece of junk mail, except you pay for the printing costs. It's an advertisement that you did not request or consent to receive that arrives via your fax machine....read more

Got Convictions?

List of Corporate Repeat Offenders
FTCR research, including extensive information reported in the legal newsletter Corporate Crime Reporter, identifies corporate entities found guilty of "strikes" -- convictions or pleas to felony criminal charges -- over the last decade. Many companies with only one "strike" violation were also found to have a history of lesser criminal and civil convictions, fines and settlements. Some of these non-"strike" infractions are included in italics. ...read more

PROFILE OF A REPEAT OFFENDER: TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION

Our inability to effectively punish corporate crime has led to unsafe working conditions, environmental destruction, and economic downturn. This lack of deterrence for corporate criminals has, in the case of Tenet Healthcare Corporation, even had a hand in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare....read more

COST OF CORPORATE CRIME: $1.5 TRILLION ANNUALLY*

ELIMINATING REPEAT OFFENDERS: PRICELESS
The collapse of Enron alone is estimated to have cost the public billions of dollars. Yet Enron was the tip of the iceberg in last year's rapid succession of corporate earnings "re-statements" and admissions that books had been cooked to boost the bottom line. The cost of these discoveries -- $170 billion in direct losses from the top eight controversies, according to BusinessWeek -- was (and continues to be) borne directly by employees, investors and retirees, as well as by the whole of the failing economy....read more

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