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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission is sending 71,899 checks totaling more than $1.8 million to consumers, including many older Americans, tricked into paying for supposedly free in-home medical …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission recently released the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2021. The FTC’s National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry lets …
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PHILADELPHIA, PA — A looming deadline should finally force all U.S. phone companies to take stopping robocalls seriously. However, only one-third of the largest mobile and home phone providers nationwide …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two individuals who worked with Florida-based Grand Bahama Cruise Line LLC (GBCL) and others in making millions of illegal robocalls to consumers settled a Federal Trade Commission complaint …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit this week in federal district court accusing a California-based software company and its owner of providing assistance to …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The fees for telemarketers accessing phone numbers on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry will increase incrementally in FY 2022, announced the Federal Trade Commission.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The owners of a New Jersey-based company that sells septic tank cleaning products agreed to a permanent ban on telemarketing and will pay more than $1.6 million …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Two Florida companies and their CEO will be permanently barred from offering payment-processing services to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that they aided a criminal student debt …
Read MoreWASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission announced it has permanently banned an alleged work-from-home scammer from selling or promoting business opportunities and from using robocalls under the terms of a …
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission, along with 46 agencies from 38 states and D.C., has stopped a massive telefunding operation that bombarded 67 million consumers with 1.3 billion …
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