About us

Stop Relay Abuse was started by a woman who worked as a relay operator while in business school earning her MBA. Fed up with the failure of government and industry to solve the problem of Relay abuse, she launched this website so people could easily:

• Tell the FCC and their elected representatives to require proof of need in order to use Internet Relay
• Learn how to protect themselves, their businesses and families from Internet Relay fraud and harassment

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If this information has been valuable to you, please consider making a secure donation via PayPal to keep this website up and running and to help expand our efforts to stop Relay abuse.

Contributions are not tax-deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes.

More ways to prevent fraud

Stop Relay Abuse is developing point of sale fraud prevention and employee training materials for large and small businesses. If you are interested in learning more or having customized training for your call center or store employees, please email us at:

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