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Claim your reports online, then review them carefully to see if the debt is listed. Familiarize yourself with the FDCPA . This law prohibits deceptive or abusive practices by debt collectors.
The Court held, on a 6–3 vote, in favor of Consumers Union, the publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, ruling that proof of "actual malice" was necessary in product disparagement cases raising First Amendment issues, as set out by the case of New York Times Co. v. Sullivan (1964). The Court ruled that the First Circuit Court of Appeals had ...
Palmer v. Kleargear.com, no. 13-cv-00175 (D. Utah, filed December 18, 2013), is a 2013 US federal lawsuit in which an internet retailer was sued by two of its customers after it billed the customers for $3,500 following a negative review.
The FTC tracks various scams and reports on other sites that provide fake credit reports or charge fees for their services. [51] Instances of illegal behaviors by credit report services have been settled in court such as that of Experian Consumer Direct that was charged with deceptively signing people up for credit report monitoring services ...
The representations on the financial statements "involved no victims, no complaints, no evidence of causation, no injuries, no losses to any business or consumer, and no impact on any public ...
The U.S. District court is advising the public of a scam where callers pretend to work for the court and try to steal money. RI scam alert: Callers are impersonating court officials, demanding ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is an independent agency of the United States government responsible for consumer protection in the financial sector.CFPB's jurisdiction includes banks, credit unions, securities firms, payday lenders, mortgage-servicing operations, foreclosure relief services, debt collectors, for-profit colleges, and other financial companies operating in the ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.