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The Federal Trade Commission reported on December 1, 2025, that it distributed nearly 1.7 million Pass It On education items during fiscal 2025. The campaign provides older adults with information they can share with friends, relatives and community groups.

The agency's Protecting Older Consumers report put cumulative distribution above 23.5 million items since the campaign began. Materials include fact sheets, bookmarks, videos and presentations, with English and Spanish resources available online and printed copies available to order.

The approach treats older adults as information-sharing partners. Rather than assuming a reader is already a victim, the campaign explains recognizable situations and encourages conversation. Topics include impersonation, home-repair offers, technology-support fraud, unwanted calls, identity theft and misleading job or investment claims.

The report identifies libraries, banks, police departments, adult-protective-services offices, military-support groups and other organizations among those ordering and distributing the materials. The campaign's current public page organizes resources by topic and offers articles and presentation materials for local use.

Distribution is a measure of outreach, not a count of scams prevented. The report does not establish that every item was read or that exposure alone changed a person's behavior. Its concrete result is a sizable flow of free prevention information through everyday community organizations. Those routes allow a resident or group to begin a discussion using an official resource, while the topic-based collection can be checked when a new question arises.

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