The Federal Trade Commission has charged three individuals and nine businesses with bilking more than $125 million from thousands of consumers with a fraudulent business education program called MOBE (“My Online Business Education”)
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This report finds that aggregate end-of-year consumer credit card
borrowing roughly follows end-of-year retail expenditure patterns, with
consumer borrowing experiences differing across consumers with different credit
scores and different credit card utilization rates at baseline
This week the Bureau begins the process of transforming the Bureau’s Stakeholder Outreach and Engagement work, which includes transitioning from former modes of outreach, to a new strategy to increase high quality feedback
Technology companies and owner knowingly facilitated neighbor-spoofed robocalls
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint in federal district court seeking to stop two related operations and their principals who allegedly facilitated billions of illegal robocalls to consumers nationwide, pitching everything from auto warranties to home security systems and supposed debt-relief services
Learn how youth employment programs can work with financial institutions
to help young people get access to accounts that work for them
A North Carolina debt collection operation, Lombardo, Daniels & Moss, and its principals, Dion Barron and Charles R
The settlements stem from an FTC-led enforcement sweep announced last year
The defendants in two student loan debt relief cases have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission claims that they charged consumers illegal upfront fees and falsely promised to help reduce or forgive student loan debt burdens
We recently published a Complaint Snapshot report, which provides an
overview of trends across consumer complaints
The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to a settlement with PayPal, Inc
