We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. The Federal Trade Commission has seized fake military recruitment websites, including army.com, armyenlist.com, and navyenlist.com, which have been used to deceive consumers for years. The websites, which appeared to be affiliated with the US military but were in fact not, asked prospective military applicants to provide personal data—including their full name, email address, phone number, and education history—in exchange for information about joining the armed forces, the FTC said. Despite promising not to share the information with anyone else and only use it for military recruitment purposes, the operators of these copycat websites then sold the data as marketing leads to post-secondary schools for $15 to $40 a pop. "Those who are considering a military career deserve to have confidence that the recruitment site is legitimate and their personal information will not be misused," FTC Chairman Joe Simons said in a statement. "The FTC will take action against any party in the lead generation ecosystem—from sellers to purchasers—that fails to comply with the law." The sites had been up and running since at least 2010. Those who submitted their information to these sites received phone calls from telemarketers who posed as members of the military promoting certain schools. The crooks placed "hundreds of thousands of illegal telemarketing calls to phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry," the FTC wrote. As part of a settlement with the FTC, the defendants have handed over control of the websites to the agency. Meanwhile, to contact an actual military recruiter, visit this Department of Defense site. Official US military websites will have the .mil domain, like army.mil. "Before you fill out forms or applications on a site, find out more about who is actually requesting your information and for what purpose by doing an online search for the site operator with words like 'complaint' or 'review,'" the FTC recommended.
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We review products independently, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page. Terms of use. The Federal Trade Commission has seized fake military recruitment websites, including army.com, armyenlist.com, and navyenlist.com, which have been used to deceive consumers for years. The websites, which appeared to be affiliated with the US military but were in fact not, asked prospective military applicants to provide personal data—including their full name, email address, phone number, and education history—in exchange for information about joining the armed forces, the FTC said. Despite promising not to share the information with anyone else and only use it for military recruitment purposes, the operators of these copycat websites then sold the data as marketing leads to post-secondary schools for $15 to $40 a pop. "Those who are considering a military career deserve to have confidence that the recruitment site is legitimate and their personal information will not be misused," FTC Chairman Joe Simons said in a statement. "The FTC will take action against any party in the lead generation ecosystem—from sellers to purchasers—that fails to comply with the law." The sites had been up and running since at least 2010. Those who submitted their information to these sites received phone calls from telemarketers who posed as members of the military promoting certain schools. The crooks placed "hundreds of thousands of illegal telemarketing calls to phone numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry," the FTC wrote. As part of a settlement with the FTC, the defendants have handed over control of the websites to the agency. Meanwhile, to contact an actual military recruiter, visit this Department of Defense site. Official US military websites will have the .mil domain, like army.mil. "Before you fill out forms or applications on a site, find out more about who is actually requesting your information and for what purpose by doing an online search for the site operator with words like 'complaint' or 'review,'" the FTC recommended.