Federal Trade Commission

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Title:	Federal Trade Commission
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Language:	English
Subject:	Trade, Import and export controls, Federal Trade Commission (U.S.)
Collections:	Economics Publications Collection, Federal Trade Commission
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Publisher:	Government Printing Office


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Government Reference Publication

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To identify consumer protection problems and trends in the fast-changing, increasingly global marketplace, the FTC is making creative use of new technologies and building on its broad base of private and public sector partners. The FTC receives over 10,000 consumer complaints about fraudulent and deceptive business practices each week through its toll-free telephone number and Web site and plans to enhance this system to track and analyze privacy-related complaints more effectively. It is expanding dramatically its capacity to collect consumer complaints through a toll-free helpline and online consumer complaint form. It has created a comprehensive information system with a segmented database for consumer fraud complaints and identity theft complaints. The FTC shares fraud-related complaint data through Consumer Sentinel, a secure online database of fraud and identity theft complaints, with more than 400 law enforcement organizations in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Consumer Sentinel is a unique and effective enforcement tool that enables law enforcers to access data right at their desks. Although the FTC is not empowered to act on behalf of individual consumers, consumer complaint data obtained through Consumer Sentinel enables the FTC and its other law enforcement partners to coordinate their enforcement efforts, and to identify and target the most serious consumer problems.