Sep23
Butterfly Labs Twitter Chat
FTC Hosts Twitter Chat, Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 3:00 PM EDT FTC staff will answer questions about its Butterfly Labs case on Twitter at 3 p.m. today. Follow @FTC, and tweet questions with the...
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At FTC’s Request, Court Halts Bogus Bitcoin Mining Operation
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has shut down Butterfly Labs, a Missouri-based company that allegedly deceptively marketed specialized computers designed to produce...
FTC Action Halts Online High School Diploma Mill That Made $11 Million Selling Worthless Diplomas to Students
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At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a U.S. district court in Florida has temporarily halted a diploma mill that allegedly grossed more than $11 million from marketing and selling fake high...
FTC Staff Comment Before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Regarding the Use of Mobile Financial Services By Consumers and Its Potential For Improving the Financial Lives of Economically Vulnerable Consumers
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FTC staff filed a comment before the CFPB in response to its request for information on the use of mobile financial systems by consumers and their potential benefits for the financial lives of...
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FTC Staff Provides Comment to CFPB on Mobile Financial Services
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The staff of the Federal Trade Commission filed a comment in response to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s request for information on the use of mobile financial systems by consumers and...
Commission Announces Workshop to Explore How Fraud Affects Different Communities
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The Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop entitled “Fraud Affects Every Community” on Oct. 29, 2014, in Washington to examine how fraud affects groups including older adults, servicemembers...
FTC Mails Refund Checks Totaling Approximately $800,000 to Consumers Victimized by Alleged Mortgage Relief Scams
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The Federal Trade Commission, through an administrator, is mailing checks totaling approximately $800,000 to 1,305 consumers who fell prey to two related mortgage relief scams. In one scheme, using...
FTC Charges Payment Processors Involved in I Works Scheme
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged seven defendants with illegally processing credit card payments on behalf of a massive Internet scam that allegedly bilked millions of dollars from consumers...
Federal and State Agencies Stop Phony Mortgage Relief Schemes
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Note: A conference call for media with Katie Fallow, FTC Deputy Director for Consumer Protection, and CFBP Deputy Director Steve Antonakes was held on July 23, 2014. Katie Fallow and FTC staff took...
Court Halts Debt Collector’s Operations, Freezes Assets
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission and the New York Attorney General’s Office, a U.S. district court halted a Buffalo, NY-based debt collection operation, froze the operation’s assets, and...
Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to Co-Host Roundtable on Debt Collection and the Latino Community
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UPDATED The Federal Trade Commission and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will co-host a roundtable in Long Beach, California, on October 23, 2014, to examine how debt collection issues affect...
Phony Payday Loan Brokers Settle FTC Charges
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The operators of a Tampa, Florida-based payday loan broker scheme have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they falsely promised to help consumers get loans, but instead used...
FTC Sends Refunds to Consumers Duped by Mortgage Loan Modification Scam
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The Federal Trade Commission is mailing refund checks totaling $499,701.84 to 229 consumers who paid the Lucas Law Center an advance fee for mortgage loan modifications the company falsely claimed it...
LucasLawCenter Incorporated, d/b/a Future Financial Services, LLC, et al.
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
092 3127
At the FTC’s Request, Court Halts Collection of Allegedly Fake Payday Debts
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted a Georgia-based operation from using deception and threats to collect $3.5 million in phantom payday loan “debts” that...
FTC Continues Crack Down on Deceptive Debt Collection; Houston-based Defendants Agree to Stop Deceptive Fees and Practices
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A Houston debt collection company, RTB Enterprises, Inc., which does business as Allied Data Corporation, and Raymond T. Blair, its president and sole shareholder, have agreed to a federal court order...
RMCN Credit Services, Inc., et al., United States of America
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
082 3253
First (1st) Guaranty Mortgage Corp., et al.
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
092 3169
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