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Dubbed “Operation Short Change,” the law enforcement sweep announced today includes 15 FTC cases, 44 law enforcement actions by the Department of Justice, and actions by at least 13 states and the District of Columbia. During a joint press conference today at the FTC, David Vladeck, Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, was joined by Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tony West; Roy Cooper, Attorney General of North Carolina; and a Washington, D.C. job seeker who was conned by a company ... Read More

Today's credit market makes it near impossible for the average U.S. citizen to get a car loan at a decent interest rate. It's almost always best to buy private party when shopping for a used vehicle. But when you don't have any savings, and you can't get a loan from your credit union, sometimes your forced to go play with the slimy little used car salesman. If that is the case, than here is some advice for shopping for that new to ... Read More

We periodically read other consumer complaint sites to see what active trends in business/consumer relations lie. And every so often there is an articles that will not fit the demographics of a site. On Monday June 15th 2009 major credit card companies announced a rise in consumer card defaults, and some consumer sites have picked up on this information. The rise across the board is roughly 1 percent. Although that seems small in contrast, to big business that means serious a serious ... Read More

A federal court has ordered a payment processor that debited consumers’ bank accounts without their authorization to pay $1,779,000 in consumer redress and to end the illegal practice. Payment processors serve as middlemen between merchants and banks or credit card companies. In 2006, the Federal Trade Commission charged the defendants with unfairly debiting thousands of consumer accounts for a merchant’s nonexistent “discount pharmacy cards,” despite indications that the pharmacy card operation was bogus. According to the FTC’s complaint, the payment processor did not ... Read More

Golden Eye Seafood LLC and owner, Robert Lumpkins of St. Mary's County, Md., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to and violating the Lacey Act, by falsely recording the amount and weight of striped bass, also known as rockfish, that were harvested by local fisherman and checked-in through Golden Eye from 2003 to 2007. According to his plea agreement, from at least 2003 to the present, Lumpkins was a fish wholesaler, doing business from his residence in Piney Point, Maryland, under the name Golden ... Read More