A recent surf [of the Internet] showed some sites offering these services were registered to foreign addresses. |
Charging consumers for bogus collect calls is stealing. The Federal Trade Commission will not tolerate crooks who cram unauthorized charges onto phone bills. |
Companies can't use rebates to bait consumers with the promise of cash back and then not live up to their end of the bargain. |
More than half were no longer advertising the sale of these records. |
These defendants intentionally used personal messages as a cover-up for commercial messages. Deceptive subject lines and headers not only violate the CAN-SPAM Act, but also consumer trust. |
They touted their ability to turn inventors' ideas into profitable products. But fewer than 1 percent of the customers who invested in their services got royalties from their patents that amounted to more than they paid the promoters. |
This ban is meant to shut down an infomercial empire that has misled American consumers for years. Other habitual false advertisers should take a lesson: mend your ways or face serious consequences. |
This is an important right that American consumers have. We want them to be very careful when they're exercising it. |
We're really not here saying that the spam problem is solved. What we're saying is that we're making progress. |
What we're looking for is to have small businesses apply standards that are reasonable in light of the information that they're storing. There's no business around that would leave a stack of money on a table, for people to just walk in and take. What we're really saying is that information about consumers, about your customers, is the new currency. |