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FTC Obtains Court Order Banning Debt Collectors from Debt Collection Business
FTC Alerts Consumers: If Scammers Had You Pay Them Via Western Union, You Can Now File a Claim to Get Money Back
FTC Charges Debt Collection Business Defrauded Consumers into Paying Debts They Did Not Owe
FTC Settlements Ban Chicago-area Phantom Debt Collector from the Debt Collection Business and from Selling Debt Portfolios
Stark Law, LLC d/b/a Stark Recovery
The Federal Trade Commission and the Office of the Illinois Attorney General are sending payments totaling more than $4 million to more than 10,000 consumers who lost money to the Stark Law phantom debt collection scheme.
According a suit filed by the FTC and the Illinois Attorney General, Stark Law used a host of business names to target consumers who obtained or applied for payday or other short-term loans, pressuring them into paying debts they either did not owe or that the defendants had no authority to collect. The defendants allegedly called consumers and demanded immediate payment for supposedly delinquent loans, at times threatening consumers with lawsuits or arrest, falsely claiming they would be charged with “defrauding a financial institution” or “passing a bad check.”
FTC Obtains Court Order Against Scheme that Sold Fake Payday Loan Debt Portfolios
Keynote Remarks of Commissioner Terrell McSweeny at Future of Authentication Policy Forum
FTC Obtains Court Order: Debt Collector Banned from Debt Collection Business
Court Holds Terrason Spinks and Jet Processing Inc. Liable for $280 Million in Consumer Harm Caused by the IWorks Scheme
FTC Charges Debt Collection Operation Took Consumers’ Money for Phantom Debts
FTC Files Charges Against Independent Sales Organization and Sales Agents
FTC Charges Debt Collection Scheme with Posing as Attorneys to Take Consumers’ Money for Phantom Debts
FTC Returns Money to Victims of Abusive Debt Collection Operation
FTC Returns Money to Victims of Timeshare Resale Scam
FTC Charges Debt Collection Scheme Took Consumers’ Money for Phantom Debts They Did Not Owe
FTC Enforcement Activities Related to Compliance With Regulation Z (Truth In Lending Act), Regulation M (Consumer Leasing Act), and Regulation E (Electronic Fund Transfer Act) During 2016: Report to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (May 2017)
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