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FTC Obtains Court Order Against Telemarketing Scheme that Preyed on Spanish-Speaking Consumers
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The Federal Trade Commission has ended an operation whose telemarketers in Peru used deceptive and abusive tactics to sell products for learning English to Spanish-speaking consumers in the United...
La FTC obtiene una orden judicial contra un esquema de telemercadeo que se aprovechó de consumidores hispanohablantes
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La Comisión Federal de Comercio, (FTC, por su sigla en inglés) ha puesto fin a una operación cuyos telemercaderes en Perú usaron tácticas engañosas y abusivas para vender productos para aprender...
FTC Warns Hurricane Victims About Flood Insurance Robocall Scam
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The Federal Trade Commission is warning consumers about a flood insurance scam targeting those that have been affected by Hurricane Harvey. According to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)...
FTC Obtains Court Orders Against Telemarketing Scheme That Falsely Pitched Money-Making Opportunities and Grants
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The operators of a telemarketing scheme that pitched phony business and grant opportunities have agreed to be banned from those lines of business under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission...
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Max Results Marketing/Blue Saguaro Marketing (timeline item) - August 31, 2017
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August 30, 2017
FTC Final Order with Baxter International and Claris Lifesciences Preserves U.S. Competition for the Injectable Drugs Intravenous Fluconazole and Intravenous Milrinone
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Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order designed to remedy the anticompetitive effects resulting from Baxter’s proposed $625 million acquisition of...
FTC Requires Mars to Divest 12 Veterinary Clinics as a Condition of Acquiring Pet Care Company VCA Inc.
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Mars, Incorporated has agreed to divest 12 veterinary clinics around the United States that provide specialty and emergency services to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that Mars’s $9.1 billion...
FTC Obtains Court Order: Debt Collector Banned from Debt Collection Business
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The final defendant in a debt collection scheme that illegally threatened to arrest or sue consumers and harassed their friends, family members and employers is banned from debt collection activities...
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Baxter International Inc., Claris Lifesciences Limited, and Arjun Handa, In the Matter of (timeline item) - August 30, 2017
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Order to Maintain Assets
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Mars, Incorporated and VCA Inc., In the Matter of (timeline item) - August 30, 2017
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August 29, 2017
Court Holds Terrason Spinks and Jet Processing Inc. Liable for $280 Million in Consumer Harm Caused by the IWorks Scheme
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Following a trial, a federal court has found Terrason Spinks and his company, Jet Processing Inc., liable for more than $280 million in consumer harm caused by the IWorks scheme. IWorks’ online...
Operator of Online Tax Preparation Service Agrees to Settle FTC Charges That it Violated Financial Privacy and Security Rules
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The operator of a Georgia-based online tax preparation service has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it violated federal rules on financial privacy and security. In its...
FTC Charges Debt Collection Operation Took Consumers’ Money for Phantom Debts
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged a North Carolina debt collection operation with using intimidation and deception to take money from consumers for debts they did not owe, or that the...
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