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The official version of the Federal Register Notice announcing the Commission’s final action with respect to its review of the Interpretations, Rules, and Guides under the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act was published in the Federal Register on July 20, 2015

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The Federal Trade Commission 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 homes, religious schools, and charitable organizations, by charging them for unwanted listings in an online “yellow pages” directory

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Following the Federal Trade Commission’s first Debt Collection Dialogue, co-hosted in June with the New York Attorney General’s Office in Buffalo, the FTC will host two additional dialogues this fall in Dallas and Atlanta

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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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