Consumer Services Guide (CSG)

Consumer Action Edition

 
 

Records Found: 11

    Fraud


  • California - Department of Real Estate
    The mission of the California Bureau of Real Estate is to safeguard and promote the public interests in REAL ESTATE MATTERS through licensure, regulation, education and enforcement. Handles unfair, misleading or fraudulent treatment by a licensee in real estate transactions. Call for complaint form. State your specific complaint, list witnesses and include copies of all documents.

  • Department of Housing and Community Development
    Contact with complaints about mobilehome sales, dealers and manufacturers, for warranty problems, escrow, contracts, fraud and misrepresentation, health and safety.

  • Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
    Enforces federal consumer protection laws concerning false advertising, deceptive business practices, inaccurate credit reports and handles complaints regarding credit cards, failure of banks to disclose credit terms, denial of credit because of discrimination and inaccurate disclosure of credit reports. May be able to assist with problems of abusive collection agencies.

  • Fresno County District Attorney
    The Business Affairs Unit conducts investigations and prosecutions of consumer protection and fraud cases, business law violations, environmental law violations and major fraud.

  • Inspector General's Fraud Hotline, (HUD)
    Accepts e-mail complaints related to fraud, waste, and abuse in HUD programs and operations, including mismanagement or violations of law, rules, or regulations by HUD employees or program participants. HUD's page warns consumers that sending e-mail complaints will not protect their privacy or confidentiality.

  • Marin County District Attorney
    The Consumer Protection Unit is responsible for handling a broad spectrum of consumer protection activities. Its focus is to protect honest citizens from fraudulent or dishonest business practices. They have four major areas of concern: enforcement, mediation, referral, and outreach.

  • Napa County District Attorney
    The Consumer and Environmental Protection Division of the Napa County District Attorney’s Office protects consumers and honest businesses from unfair business practices, ranging from a deceptive sales pitch by a local car dealer to false advertising by national corporations. It also serves to protect the environment and consequently, the health and safety of Napa County’s citizens.

  • San Francisco Rent Stabilization and Arbitration Board (Rent Board)
    Contact with questions about rent control in San Francisco. It may investigate reports of wrongful eviction as defined by city rent laws. This is an agency of the City/County of S.F.

  • Solano County District Attorney
    The mission of the Solano County District Attorney’s Office is to seek and do justice by assisting law enforcement and other public agencies in the investigation of crimes, prosecuting only those crimes which can be proved beyond a reasonable doubt, ensuring a fair trial for those accused of crime as well as for victims and witnesses of crimes, advocating to the public and to the…

  • Sonoma County Legal Services Foundation
    Information and referral to legal resources. Alternative Dispute Resolution Services.

  • Ventura County District Attorney
    Consumer information and advice. Complaints accepted in consumer-merchant disputes where either the consumer or the merchant is located in Ventura County. Some landlord/tenant disputes accepted.

 
 
 

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