Significant achievements in the area of investment fraud reflect the FTC's use of collaborative, innovative law enforcement measures and education messages to help fight aggressive and inventive investment fraud: 

Project Roadblock

In January 1996, the FTC coordinated federal and state law enforcement actions against fraud promoters peddling FCC paging licenses and 900-number companies as investments. In "Project Roadblock," the FTC and 21 states filed 85 law enforcement actions against companies touting information superhighway investments that took more than a quarter of a billion dollars from consumers.