The Commodity Futures Trading Commission launched a new program Wednesday to increase investor awareness of frauds -- except for lack of suitability, which is the biggest source of harm to retail investors in the gold and grain futures and financial derivatives that the CFTC regulates.

The campaign includes online, television and print ads to help investors recognize common physical commodity and financial futures scams.

Center stage in the effort is the smartcheck.cftc.gov website with a gee-whiz feature: three interactive pretend video sales pitches from scamsters that give viewers several opportunities to opt out or fall into the trap.

The site also provides links to CFTC enforcement actions, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s BrokerCheck and the National Futures Association’s Background Affiliation Status Information Center (BASIC), which gives information on the registration of CFTC and NFA registered professionals.

There is also a somewhat buried link to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Investor.gov site, which has a link to the SEC’s Investment Adviser Public Disclosure database.

Like state securities regulators, the CFTC said most of the investor fraud it uncovers is from unlicensed professionals.

The CFTC said it took action between 2010 and 2013 that cost at least 30,000 investors more than $1 billion.