Mar04
NCPW Twitter Chat
FTC to Host Twitter Chat-Tuesday, March 4, 2:00-3:00 EST To highlight National Consumer Protection Week, the FTC will host a Twitter chat to answer consumers’ questions about common scams. FTC...
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Mar02
National Consumer Protection Week
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The Federal Trade Commission, in collaboration with 74 federal, state and local agencies, consumer groups, and national organizations, celebrates National Consumer Protection Week, beginning Sunday...
FTC Testifies Before Congress on Fraud Affecting Military Community
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The Federal Trade Commission testified before a U.S. Senate Committee regarding the agency’s law enforcement and educational efforts to combat deceptive and unfair practices that impact servicemembers...
FTC Sues to Stop Massive Sweepstakes Scam
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has halted a massive sweepstakes scam that has taken more than $11 million from consumers throughout the United States and dozens of...
May02
Lottery, Prize, and Sweepstakes Scams and the Role of Money Transfer Services
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The Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with the United States Postal Inspection Service, will host a two-day public workshop in Chicago, Illinois to examine what more can be done to protect...
Court Halts Counterfeit Check and Prize Scam
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has ordered a permanent halt to a lottery and prize-promotion scam that used counterfeit cashier’s checks and false promises of large...
Sweepstakes Promoters Will Pay $1.4 Million To Settle FTC Charges
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A sweepstakes operation that enticed consumers to send money in order to win cash prizes has agreed to pay almost $1.4 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal laws...
Bad Bonds: FTC Charges Canadian Defendant with Defrauding Elderly U.S. Consumers with Promises of Cash Winnings
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operator of a Vancouver, Canada-based telemarketing operation with targeting elderly U.S. consumers in connection with offering nonexistent foreign bonds...
Cross-Border Law Enforcement Yields $1.5 Million in Redress for U.S. Consumers
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Cross-border cooperation between Canadian and U.S. law enforcers will provide approximately $1.5 million in redress for victims of four international lottery scams operated by telemarketers based in...
Cross-Border Lottery-Bond Scheme Alleged to Violate U.S. Laws; Targets U.S. Citizens
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A Canadian telemarketing company targeting U.S. citizens in a lottery scheme has been temporarily shut down by the Federal Trade Commission and Canadian law enforcement officials. According to the FTC...
FTC Halts Credit Card Laundering Operation: Millions Lost to Cross Border Lottery Fraud
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In a crack down on cross border fraud, the Federal Trade Commission has obtained a court order temporarily halting a credit card laundering service that allowed Canadian telemarketers to bilk U.S...
Business Blog
Facts about fraud from the FTC – and what it means for your business
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The FTC just issued its 2023 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book jam-packed with facts about the kind of scams consumers have reported to us. Has the reported dollar amount lost to fraud gone up or...
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FTC crunches the 2022 numbers. See where scammers continue to crunch consumers.
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There are prime numbers, irrational numbers, and Fibonacci’s numbers – but from a consumer protection perspective, no number is quite as sobering as the dollar amount that people reported losing to...
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Facing the facts about fraud: It may not be the face you think
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Ask someone to picture the typical person who has experienced a scam and they may think of an older consumer taken in by a fast-talking fraudster . Regardless of the image they create, the results of...
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New interactive feature shows there’s no generation gap for scams
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When it comes to fraud, there’s no such thing as a generation gap. According to reports in the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel database, fraud affects every generation. But that’s only half the story. What...
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Scams and the older consumer: Some surprising findings
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There are perceptions some people seem to have about older consumers – and then there’s the data we see in fraud reports from consumers of that age group. Protecting Older Consumers 2018-2019: A...
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