The defendants, who began operating as “Money Now Funding,” tried to avoid detection by law enforcement by changing product names, office locations and merchant identities.
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The vast majority of telephone calls that deliver a prerecorded message trying to sell something to the recipient are illegal. As technology has advanced over the years, so have the number of illegal robocalls. Last year, The Federal Trade Commission challenged innovators to create solutions that would block these illegal robocalls. These solutions should block
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CNBC: How’s this for irony: Early last year the Federal Trade Commission enacted the new so-called Business Opportunity Rule that covered such business pitches as operating vending machines, jewelry display racks or making extra cash by working at home. Notably absent from the definition of business opportunity: multi-level marketers, whose products are sold through a
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FTCAdLaw: From Vermont to California and Oregon to Florida, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has wasted no time enforcing its beefed up Business Opportunity (“Biz-Opâ€) Rule. Last month, it filed its first six cases across the country (three are the author’s) to enforce the rule, which took effect last March. Some of the companies had
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The Federal Trade Commission escalated its campaign against illegal, unwanted robocalls announcing that it pulled the plug on five companies based in Arizona and Florida allegedly responsible for millions of illegal pre-recorded calls from “Rachel†and others from “Cardholder Services.†State partners in Arizona, Arkansas, and Florida also took legal action against similar companies. Just
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The Federal Trade Commission is challenging the public to create an innovative solution that will block illegal commercial robocalls on landlines and mobile phones. As part of its ongoing campaign against these illegal, prerecorded telemarketing calls, the agency is launching the FTC Robocall Challenge, and offering a $50,000 cash prize for the best technical solution.
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Business Week: A new Federal Trade Commission rule is supposed to protect people who buy business opportunities by requiring sellers to provide a one-page disclosure form that includes support for earnings claims, a list of previous legal actions against the company, and its cancellation or refund policy. But the FTC rule, which went into effect
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FTC: Six online marketers agreed to settlements with the Federal Trade Commission that will permanently halt their allegedly deceptive practice of using fake news websites to market acai berry supplements and other weight-loss products. As part of its ongoing crackdown on bogus health claims, the proposed settlements will require that the six operations make clear
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