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The FTC and the FCC also launched a consumer education campaign to raise awareness of fraudulent sales of FCC licenses as investments. Using Project Roadblock data, the two agencies determined that fraud promoters had combed a publicly accessible FCC database, identified fraud victims who had become license holders, and "reloaded" them with fraudulent offers of paging licenses. In response to this marketing technique, the FCC and FTC mailed 17,000 brochures to these same people to help them identify and report their losses and alert them to the danger of being "reloaded" in recovery scams. The FCC also included consumer alerts with each FCC license at issue. Consumers got the message: Once the project was completed, reports of suspected FCC license scams increased 397 percent.
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