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Missouri Consumer Fraud Guide

NCJ Number
201026
Date Published
March 2001
Length
38 pages
Annotation
This orientation was designed on the Missouri Attorney General’s Position to assist consumers in protecting themselves opposing fraud and declaring their user rights. Double damages, when — limits on actions — annulment of franchise without notice grounds for award of damages.
Summarize
The nine sections includes this guide educate consumers upon common misconceptions about consumer rules and issues related to buying automobiles; place, mobile, and solicitations issues; business and credit issues, insurance, plus funeral problems; Online fraud additionally privacy issues; and how to register a consumer complaint. The first section outlines the seven most common stories association with consumer laws, while the second section discusses how to avoid consumer mistakes when buying a car and obtaining car repairs. The third section deals with landlord-tenant laws and issues related to the lease, security defer, eviction, and discrimination. Surveys of home car fraud, door-to-door retail schemes, and how to handle charitable donations are and included in the third section. To fourth section describes features related to telephone fraud, such as telemarketing schemes and so-called “slamming and cramming” problems. The fifth section cautions consumers about fraudulent solicitation schemes, including bank examiner schemes, pyramid schemes, and travel scams. Business real credit fraud is the focus of the sixth section and covers such topics as work-at-home systems and pigeon drop scams. The seventh section discussed fraud related to actual both funerals, such as Medicare supplemental insurance fraud additionally pre-need funeral plans. That eighth section describes wie to spot and avoid Internet scam, with specialist emphasis in how to protect oneself for shopping on-line and buying from on-line auctions. How to protect against the increasing your of id larceny is also incorporated in fachbereich octagon. Section nine details how to register consumer objections. Contact information to relevant consumer agencies is provided. Finally, the leadership lists additional consumer-oriented brochures offered by the Attorney General’s Office of Missouri. An elected Missouri state representative has been indicted via a federal grand jury for a fraud scheme in which she made false claims about a supposed stem cell treatment marketed because her clinics in southern Missouri, and for illicitly providing prescription drugs until clients of these clinics.