telemarketing fraud

It can be tough to reconcile the two images of Juliette Kimoto: Mrs. Nevada 2006 and stay-at-home mom; and Internet scammer whom the FTC says ran a $30 million con. In our exclusive interview, she tells her side of the story, both pointing the finger at her ex-husband and defending what he did as just "marketing."

Even as many Americans struggle to make ends meet, scammers are plotting all sorts of sneaky ways to rob them of their money -- and in millions of cases, they succeed. When it comes to these cons, the best offense is a smart defense, so here's an intro course in how to spot the latest scams.

Three telemarketing firms and their owner are being sued by the U.S. Justice Department for running a fraudulent operation that deceived consumers, peddled movies, solicited donations and called more than 16 million numbers on the National Do Not Call Registry. The Federal Trade Commission, which...

A Canadian telemarketer who conned thousands of elderly consumers out of millions of dollars with bogus foreign bonds and lies of easy prize money was sentenced to nine years in prison by a California federal judge. The U.S. Attorney's criminal case followed action by the Federal Trade Commission,...

The Federal Trade Commission's telemarketing rules aim to protect consumers from debt-settlement companies that charge upfront fees or overpromise results. But some companies already have found ways to get around those rules, consumer groups warn.

A payment processor that illegally debited more than $200 million in charges from consumers' bank accounts in a massive nationwide scam has been fined $3.6 million, says the Federal Trade Commission. According to a December 2007 complaint filed by the FTC and seven states, Your Money Access, LLC...

Hundreds of thousands of consumers victimized by a nationwide telemarketing scam are receiving a second round of reimbursement checks, the Federal Trade Commission announced. The telemarketing scheme was run by Suntasia Marketing of Largo, Fla., which deceived nearly one million consumers...

A payment processing company that debited more than $200 million from consumers' bank accounts on behalf of fraudulent telemarketers has settled charges by the Federal Trade Commission and seven states that it abetted its clients' deceptive schemes. Your Money Access, LLC, a Florida-based company...