For-Profit College Lead Generators Become Target

2012-10-09

Late last month U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) sent in a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chairman, Jon Leibowitz. In the letter the Senators urge the FTC to not only better inform and update dated consumer guides for private vocational schools, but to investigate third-party … Read more

Spyware Marketer Fined $163M by FTC

2012-10-02

Perhaps you’ve seen it before, those pesky, uninvited websites and programs that have popped up onto your computer insisting that you had malware and viruses, so you needed to purchase a scanning software to remove the ³virus² when the real virus was the scheme of the deceptive marketers trying to scare consumers into purchasing their bogus scanning … Read more