About Us

About Stopcatalog.com

Stopcatalog.com is a consumer-privacy resource published by Harman Research. The site exists to answer a question most people never think to ask: is the catalog mail piling up in my mailbox a security risk? The short answer is yes — and the longer answer is what this site is about.

Our focus

Catalog mail is rarely discussed as an identity-theft vector, yet every catalog is a confirmed name-and-address pairing that has traveled through a chain of data brokers, co-op databases, and list resellers. Each link in that chain is a company that holds your personal information and a potential point of exposure. Stopcatalog.com explains how that ecosystem works, who buys mailing-list data, why physical mail enables fraud — from prescreened-credit-offer theft to elder-fraud targeting — and, most importantly, what you can do to reduce your exposure.

How we work

We write for security-conscious readers who want facts, not alarmism. Every risk we describe is anchored to authoritative public sources — the Federal Trade Commission, the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, among others — and every guide ends with the citations behind it. Where opting out involves a real tool or registry (DMAchoice, the official prescreened-offer opt-out, per-catalog unsubscribe steps), we point you to the legitimate source and explain what to expect.

Stopcatalog.com is part of a small family of opt-out and privacy resources. For broad junk-mail reduction, see optout.ws; for step-by-step instructions to stop specific catalogs, see stopthecatalogs.com.

Contact

Questions, corrections, or suggestions are welcome. Please reach us through our contact page.