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An operation that collects debts owed to municipalities has agreed to stop engaging in allegedly illegal collection tactics under a settlement with the �鶹��ý Trade Commission. According to the FTC...

A debt relief company and its principals who allegedly misled consumers and charged illegal advance fees will be banned from those practices under a settlement with the �鶹��ý Trade Commission...

Under a settlement with the �鶹��ý Trade Commission, Arizona-based Vemma Nutrition Company will end the business practices that the FTC alleged created a pyramid scheme. The multi-level marketing...

The defendants behind a group of California-based marketers have been permanently barred from the deceptive marketing and billing tactics they allegedly used to promote their skincare products, under...

A debt collection company’s former vice president will be banned from the debt collection business under a settlement with the �鶹��ý Trade Commission. The FTC’s complaint against Commercial Recovery...

The �鶹��ý Trade Commission and the State of Florida have taken action against two operations charged with running phony student loan debt relief schemes, and defendants in a similar FTC action...

CORRECTED The quote in this release has been updated for clarification. Viatek Consumer Products Group, Inc. and company owner and President Lou Lentine have agreed to settle �鶹��ý Trade Commission...

A Texas-based debt collection agency will pay $72,000 in civil penalties and be required to adopt new procedures to settle �鶹��ý Trade Commission charges that it violated the requirements of the...

In four separate actions, the �鶹��ý Trade Commission is announcing that it has stopped illegal debt collection tactics of several debt collection operations. In addition, other federal and state law...

At the �鶹��ý Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has temporarily halted and frozen the assets of an operation that the FTC alleges bilked millions of dollars from nonprofit organizations and...

At the �鶹��ý Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has banned Robert Ray Law and his company, CPU Service Incorporated (CPU) from sending unsolicited direct mail to advertise or promote goods...

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Two marketers of ultraviolet light “disinfectant” devices have agreed to stop making claims that their devices can wipe out foot fungus and dangerous bacteria like MRSA, E. coli, and Salmonella in...

The FTC is mailing 3,133 checks totaling more than $87,000 to consumers who lost money to the Your Yellow Book scheme, which allegedly bilked money from small businesses, doctors’ offices, retirement...

The �鶹��ý Trade Commission has stopped a group of marketers in California from using allegedly bogus “risk free trial” offers to sell skincare products online. At the Commission’s request, a federal...

An Arkansas auto dealer and its owners have agreed to pay a $90,000 civil penalty to settle �鶹��ý Trade Commission charges that they failed to display a “Buyers Guide” on used vehicles offered for...

Austin, Texas-based Home Relief Foundation, Inc. and its two owners have settled �鶹��ý Trade Commission charges that they illegally charged up-front fees for services they falsely promised would...