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FTC Settles Case Against Prepaid Phone Cards

A case the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has been investigating for more than two (2) years was settled last month.  For several years, the FTC received numerous complaints that prepaid phone cards sold by DR Phone Communications, Inc., also doing business as drphonecom.com (“DR Phone”), contained far fewer long distance phone minutes than were advertised.  […]

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FTC Secures Huge Telemarketing Judgment

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently entered a judgment against a telemarketing corporation, NHS Systems, Inc., and five principals, for violating the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Act and associated enforcement regulations, laid out in the FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR).   The defendants were accused of operating a telemarketing campaign, in

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