prepaid calling cards

    By Jorgen Wouters

    | 3:30PM 6/02/2011
    A prepaid calling card company accused by the Federal Trade Commission of deceiving customers has been slapped with a court order preventing its illegal practices while it faces an FTC lawsuit. Millennium Telecard Inc., the FTC charged, tricked customers -- many of whom are immigrants -- with...

    By Sarah Gilbert

    | 4:00PM 12/15/2010
    For married members of the military, the holidays are either special or especially miserable, depending on your family's perspective and the soldier's deployment status. Not one to give holiday bonuses (with which to buy that new stove I've been desiring), the military instead showers its troops...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 12:00PM 6/30/2009
    One of the biggest telephone calling card distributors in the country agreed to pay $1.3 million to settle a federal lawsuit accusing the firm of shorting immigrants and lower-income users their promised time -- often by half. Some users also were charged for calls that were never connected, the...