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Marketers of One-on-One ‘Brain Training’ Programs Settle FTC Charges That Claims about Ability to Treat Severe Cognitive Impairments Are Unsupported
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The developers and marketers of the LearningRx “brain training” programs have agreed to stop making a range of false and unsubstantiated claims and pay $200,000 under a settlement with the Federal...
FTC Adjusts Monetary Thresholds for Three Exemptions In Franchise Rule
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The Federal Trade Commission is adjusting three monetary exemption thresholds for inflation in its Franchise Rule. The thresholds are used to determine whether the sale of a franchise qualifies for an...
Defendants Who Took Part in Business Coaching Scheme Settle FTC Charges
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A Utah man and three companies he controls have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they assisted a deceptive work-at-home scheme that the FTC charged, in February 2014, with...
Payment Processor Involved in The Tax Club Telemarketing Scheme Settles FTC Charges
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Capital Payments LLC, an Independent Sales Organization (ISO), has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it enabled a telemarketing scheme called The Tax Club to use merchant accounts...
FTC Halts Bogus Envelope-Stuffing Scam
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At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has halted a nationwide work-at-home scam that took more than $7 million from tens of thousands of consumers. The defendants allegedly lured...
FTC Action Bans Scammers from Advance Fee Recovery Business
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The operators of an advance fee recovery scheme that falsely claimed it could recover money for consumers that they had lost to telemarketing scams will be banned from selling recovery services, and...
FTC Stops Elusive Business Opportunity Scheme
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Eighteen elusive marketers who cheated American and Canadian consumers out of more than $7 million are banned from selling business or work-at-home opportunities under court orders obtained by the...
National Business Consultants
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
882 3249
X890024
FTC Sending Refund Checks Totaling Nearly $940,000 to Consumers Who Lost Money in Fraudulent Business Opportunity Scheme
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The consumers lost money after paying performance deposits to become business or sales consultants to National Business Consultants, Inc. and its owner.
FTC Halts Advance Fee Recovery Scheme Targeting Victims of Timeshare Resale and Investment Scams
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The defendants in a federal court action brought by the FTC have agreed to stop operating an advance fee recovery scheme for the duration of the on-going litigation. The FTC seeks to permanently stop...
FTC Action Results in Court Order Requiring Work-At-Home Scammers to Pay More Than $25 Million for Consumer Refunds
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A federal district judge has ordered a business opportunity company and its president to pay more than $25 million in refunds to consumers who were conned with bogus claims that they could earn...
Zaken Group, The, also d/b/a The Zaken Corporation, QuickSell, and QuikSell and Tiran Zaken
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
122 3293
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