Federal Trade Commission staff has submitted comments to North Carolina State Representative Marilyn W

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Commission Also Approves Final Consent Orders in Two Deceptive Auto Dealership Cases
Regency Financial Services, Inc

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Ads Claimed Procera AVH Would Restore 10 to 15 Years of Memory Loss
The marketers of a dietary supplement called Procera AVH will relinquish $1

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Scammers Are Banned from Debt Collection and Telemarketing
The operators of a fraudulent debt collection scheme have agreed to be banned from the debt collection business and telemarketing, to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they bilked millions of dollars from Spanish-speaking consumers throughout the country by demanding that they pay bogus debts

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Defendants Agree to be Banned from Consumer Lending Industry
The operators of a payday lending scheme that allegedly bilked millions of dollars from consumers by trapping them into loans they never authorized will be banned from the consumer lending business under settlements with the Federal Trade Commission

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Court Temporarily Halts Operation that Took Millions of Dollars from Consumers with Credit Card Debt
A federal court has halted, and frozen the assets of, a nationwide debt relief telemarketing scam that bilked millions of dollars from consumers, pending resolution of allegations made by the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Florida

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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 robocalls to trick older consumers throughout the United States and Canada into signing up for medical alert systems with monthly monitoring fees ranging from $29

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If you’re thinking about using solar power at home, the Federal Trade Commission has new information to help you sort through the options

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Federal Trade Commission staff has submitted comments to Minnesota state legislators Joe Hoppe and Melissa Hortman in response to their request for comment on the possible competitive effects of a recently enacted law that could make contract terms for the State of Minnesota’s health plans subject to public disclosure

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The Federal Trade Commission is mailing almost 95,000 checks totaling approximately $4 million to consumers who lost money to a debt collection operation that extorted payments from them using false threats

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