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FTC and Florida Charge Tech Support Operation with Tricking Consumers Into Paying Millions for Bogus Services

Date

July 8, 2016

The FTC and State of Florida have taken action against defendants who ran an international tech support operation and allegedly misrepresented to consumers that malware or hackers had compromised...

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Start with Security - Chicago

June 15, 2016 | 12:00AM

The FTC’s fourth “Start With Security” event was held on Wednesday, June 15, 2016, in Chicago, Illinois, and was co-sponsored by Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. During this one-day event, the FTC...

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FTC Charges Marketers Used Massive Spam Campaign To Pitch Bogus Weight-Loss Products

Date

June 6, 2016

The Federal Trade Commission charged a Florida-based affiliate marketing operation with bombarding consumers with illegal spam e-mail in an attempt to sell them bogus weight-loss products using false...

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FTC and Illinois Attorney General Halt Chicago-Area Operation Charged with Collecting and Selling Phantom Payday Loan Debts

Date

March 30, 2016

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission and the Illinois Attorney General, a federal court has temporarily halted a Chicago-area operation that allegedly threatened and intimidated consumers to...

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Court Settlement Bars Weight-Loss Pill Merchants from Deceptive Conduct

Date

February 8, 2016

A Glendale, California-based operation known as Sale Slash will stop using spam emails and fake news websites with phony celebrity endorsements and unsupported efficacy claims to promote its supposed...

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FTC Returns Money to Consumers Conned into Paying for Business Directory Listings

Date

December 4, 2015

The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 774 checks totaling more than $444,000 to consumers who lost money to a business directory scam. In 2013, the FTC charged the Online Public Yellow Pages...

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FTC Halts Online ‘Yellow Pages’ Scammers

Date

December 2, 2015

At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has banned the Montreal, Quebec, area-based operators of a business directory scam from the directory business and ordered them to pay the...

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FTC, Florida Attorney General Sue to Stop Deceptive Robocalls from Operation That Pitched Seniors “Free” Medical Alert Systems

Date

July 6, 2015

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a joint complaint with the Florida Attorney General’s Office charging a New York-based operation known as Lifewatch with using blatantly illegal and deceptive...

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FTC and Florida Attorney General Sue to Stop Illegal Robocalls Pitching Worthless Credit Card Interest Rate Reduction Programs

Date

June 29, 2015

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission and the Florida Attorney General, a federal district court has temporarily halted an Orlando-based operation that has been bombarding consumers since...

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FTC Action Halts Global Sweepstakes Scam

Date

May 21, 2015

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has temporarily halted a sweepstakes operation based in Fort Lauderdale that took more than $28 million from consumers throughout the...

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FTC Returns Money to Consumers in Phantom Debt Collection Scam

Date

May 15, 2015

The Federal Trade Commission is mailing checks totaling $16,428.74 to consumers harmed by an operation that used deception and threats to collect payday loan “debts” the consumers did not owe. In...

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FTC Halts Deceptive Marketing of Bogus Weight-Loss Products

Date

May 4, 2015

The Federal Trade Commission has obtained a court order temporarily halting a Glendale, California, operation that allegedly used millions of illegal spam emails, along with false weight-loss claims...

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FTC, Illinois Attorney General Halt Chicago Area Operation Charged With Illegally Pressuring Consumers to Pay ‘Phantom’ Debts

Date

April 10, 2015

Defendants are charged with illegally using threats and intimidation tactics to coerce consumers

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FTC Halts Online ‘Yellow Pages’ Scammers

Date

March 26, 2015

The Federal Trade Commission has halted two Canada-based schemes that defrauded small businesses and nonprofits in the United States by billing them for unwanted listings in online “yellow pages”...

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Direct Marketer Agrees to Pay $8 Million for Deceiving Consumers

Date

March 5, 2015

Company pitched snuggies and other products on TV, often billing consumers without their consent

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FTC Settlement Bans Florida Scammer from Mortgage Modification and Loan Business

Date

December 15, 2014

A Florida-based scammer will be banned from the mortgage modification business as part of a settlement resolving Federal Trade Commission charges that he tricked financially strapped consumers into...

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Online Dating Service Agrees to Stop Deceptive Use of Fake Profiles

Date

October 29, 2014

Note: Steve Baker, Director of the FTC’s Midwest Region Office, will take reporters’ questions by phone: Date: October 29, 2014 Time: 2 p.m. ET Call-in: (800) 230-1951, confirmation number 341247 Call...

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Defendants in Massive Spam Text Message, Robocalling and Mobile Cramming Scheme to Pay $10 Million to Settle FTC Charges

Date

October 22, 2014

A series of defendants will pay approximately $10 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle charges that they operated a massive scam that sent unwanted text messages to millions of consumers...

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Sweepstakes Scammer Banned from Prize Promotion Industry

Date

October 7, 2014

A sweepstakes operator that took millions of dollars from consumers throughout the United States and dozens of other countries, including Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Japan, is banned from...

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FTC Stops Marketers of Phony Health Care ‘Discount’ Schemes Directed at Older Americans and Spanish-Speaking Consumers

Date

September 12, 2014

The Federal Trade Commission has halted two health care scams that were designed to trick consumers into paying for phony “discount” cards, which the scammers falsely claimed would provide consumers...

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