FTC Releases 2016 Summary of Consumer Complaints

2017-03-06

Imposter scam complaints surpassed identity theft for the first time as the second most common category of consumer complaints received by the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Sentinel Network in 2016, according to the agency’s new Data Book. Debt collection complaints remained the top consumer complaint category. The rise in impostor scam reports is due to … Read more

$4.8 Million FTC Action against Swish Marketing

2011-07-252011-07-25

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ordered Swish Marketing, Inc. to pay more than $4.8 million for misleading hundreds of thousands of payday loan applicants into paying for an unrelated debit card. For some time, the Commission has been closely monitoring payday … Read more