Cancer Fund of America, Inc.
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
122 3005
X150042
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FTC Charges Fake Prize Scheme Operators With Fraud
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operators of a fake prize scheme with mailing phony prize notifications that tricked people into thinking they had won $1 million or more if they paid a...
FTC Action: International Scammers Banned from Business Directory Business
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In an action brought by the Federal Trade Commission in 2013, a federal court has banned a Slovakia-based company and two of its executives from the business directory business, ending a scam that for...
FTC Actions: Debt Collectors Banned from Debt Collection Business
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Two groups of debt collectors will be banned from the collection business under settlements with the Federal Trade Commission, and one of them will pay more than $4.4 million to resolve charges that...
FTC Action: Court Orders Ban Mortgage Relief Scammers from Mortgage Modification and Debt Relief Business
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The principals of a mortgage relief operation and their companies are banned from the mortgage loan modification and debt relief business under court orders obtained by the Federal Trade Commission...
IWorks Billing Scheme Ringleader Agrees to Settle FTC Charges
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The ringleader and two other defendants in the massive IWorks online billing scheme have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they took more than $280 million from consumers via...
FTC Action: Debt Collector Banned from Collection Business
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A debt collector and his companies will be banned from the debt collection business under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General of the State of New York, which...
FTC Action: Texas Car Dealers to Pay $85,000 Civil Penalty
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Three Dallas area auto dealers, collectively known as Southwest Kia, have agreed to pay an $85,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated an FTC administrative...
FTC Sends Out Third Round of Redress Checks to Victims of the J.K. Publications Credit Card Fraud
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The Federal Trade Commission, through its claims administrator, has begun be mailing more than 321,982 checks totaling nearly $9.7 million to consumers identified as victims of an illegal credit card...
FTC Obtains Summary Judgment Decision Against Medical Discount Card Scammers
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A health care scammer and his company, who tricked Spanish-speaking and other consumers seeking health insurance into buying phony medical discount cards, are banned from selling healthcare-related...
FTC Action: Abusive Debt Collectors Banned from Collection Business
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Two debt collectors and three companies charged with using false threats and other illegal collection tactics are banned from the debt collection business under a settlement with the Federal Trade...
Student Loan Help Direct
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
152 3079
X160029
FTC Testifies on Efforts to Stop Fraud Affecting Older Americans Before Senate Judiciary Committee
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The Federal Trade Commission highlighted to Congress its multi-faceted approach to protecting older Americans from fraud in testimony today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Testifying on behalf...
FTC Returns More Than $6 Million to Consumers Who Bought Infomercial Marketer Kevin Trudeau’s Weight-Loss Book
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The Federal Trade Commission is mailing checks totaling approximately $6.3 million to consumers who bought Kevin Trudeau’s book, “The Weight Loss Cure ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About.” In 2009, a...
FTC Action Halts Phony OSHA Scam that Targets New Small Businesses
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged a Florida man and his company with bilking at least $1.3 million from newly-opened small businesses by pretending to be a federal government agency, and...
Operators of Tech Support Scam Settle FTC Charges
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The defendants behind Vast Tech Support have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission and State of Florida charges that they scammed thousands of consumers out of millions of dollars by selling them...
FTC Action: Debt Collector Banned from Debt Collection Business
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The head of an unlawful debt collection operation is banned from that business under a court order obtained by the Federal Trade Commission. The court granted the FTC’s request for summary judgment on...
FTC Provides Staff Comment on FCC Proposal to Amend its Regulations On Use of Robocalls to Collect Debts Owed to or Guaranteed by Federal Government
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Federal Trade Commission staff submitted a comment to the Federal Communications Commission on proposed amendments to the FCC regulations that limit robocalls to consumers. The proposed amendments...
FTC Reports on Fighting Fraud in African American and Latino Communities
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The Federal Trade Commission today issued a report to Congress describing the agency’s substantial work on fraud prevention, law enforcement, and consumer outreach and education in African American...
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