In March 2014, the Federal Trade Commission issued a bulletin entitled Background Checks: What Job Applicants and Employees Should Know, which set forth and summarized a number of the laws and regulations on the use of employment background checks, both prior to and subsequent to hiring.
In November, the FTC issued a second such
Thirty-eight state and territorial attorneys general recently sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission requesting that it update its Telemarketing Sales Rules to help further protect against telemarketing fraud and abuse.
While the state attorneys general support existing Telemarketing Sales Rules, the group listed a number of concerns, including:
The United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York this month brought criminal charges against Williams Scott & Associates LLC and seven of its employees for allegedly engaging in illegal practices to collect more than $4 million from 6,000 victims across the country.
The charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud followed a
Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Federal Trade Commission filed two complaints against multiple companies operating “multi-million dollar schemes to sell tech support services to consumers nationwide,” according to a news release by the State Attorney General’s office.
According to Bondi and the FTC, the first complaint alleges that Inbound Call Experts LLC, Super
Following lawsuits filed against it this month by the Federal Trade Commission and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, Consumer Collection Advocates Corp. (CCA) and its principal agreed to suspend operations in Florida, pending the outcome of the litigation.
According to the complaints by the FTC and the Florida Attorney General, CCA contracted with fraud
The Federal Trade Commission has stopped an online program that allegedly lured consumers with “free” access to their credit scores and then billed them a recurring fee of $29.95 per month for a credit monitoring program they never ordered. The defendants are One Technologies LP (also doing business as ScoreSense, One Technologies Inc., and MyCreditHealth);
On October 28, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued the latest edition of its “Supervisory Highlights” report, covering illegalities it discovered in the debt collection, student loan servicing, and mortgage collection markets between March and June 2014. Although the Bureau acknowledged increased efforts by covered entities to ensure regulatory compliance, the report nevertheless
At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court judge in Miami has temporarily shut down a fraudulent phantom debt collection operation that allegedly deceived Spanish-speaking consumers across the country.
On October 20, the FTC filed a complaint against Centro Natural Corp., Sumore LLC, and several individual defendants alleging that defendants illegally
On October 17, the Congressional Budget Office responded to a request from the House Financial Services Committee and issued certain cost estimates associated with the implementation of the proposed “Financial Regulatory Clarity Act of 2014.” Specifically, the CBO estimated that the bill would cost the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau $7 million between 2015 and 2024,
The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit has issued a decision upholding a district court ruling that several defendants based in the U.S. and Canada deceived consumers through a telemarketing scheme designed to sell them phony mortgage assistance and debt relief programs, according to the Federal Trade Commission.
The Court’s decision