Company Background Checks to avoid Scams and Faud

•The Better Business Bureau http://www.bbb.org/

•Web Assured ("Watch List" to see complaints on companies) http://www.webassured.com/

•The Federal Trade Commission's Consumer Response Center http://www.ftc.gov/

•Scambusters - newsletter you can join too http://www.scambusters.com/

•The National Fraud Information Center http://www.fraud.org/