| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-12-01 | | Series: | Contemporary World Issues Series |
| Size | | Length: | 338 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 24.0 oz |
Publisher's Note Consumers lose countless billions of dollars annually to telemarketing fraud, misleading advertising, and bogus investment schemes. This volume reveals the full spectrum of consumer fraud - from adulteration to work-at-home scams - and explains what consumer fraud is, how it affects society, and what is being done to combat it. Readers will find an informative introduction, a chronology of significant milestones related to consumer fraud, and biographical sketches of key figures. Source documents and statistics, a directory of consumer organizations and agencies, listings of print and nonprint resources (including Internet sites), a glossary, and a comprehensive index round out the volume.
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