Based in part on Project Roadblock data, the FCC eventually suspended the acceptance of paging applications pending further review of its procedures and adjustments to its licensing processes. Said the FCC: "The freeze is necessary to combat telemarketing schemes involving paging application fraud."(14) By the end of 1996, Project Roadblock's law enforcement, consumer education, and FCC reforms had put the lid on a significant source of investment fraud in the 1990s.

Challenging Fraud on the Internet