Friday, April 18, 2014

2014-04-18 FTC Consumer Update: A CLU to fighting fraud


Federal Trade Commission Consumer Information
by Carol Kando-Pineda
Counsel, Consumer & Business Education, FTC

Imagine a criminal gang has defrauded thousands of people around the country. They may have scammed folks out of millions — or tens of millions — of dollars. The FTC goes after just these kinds of bad guys, and often, can get money back for the consumers who were ripped off. But what about the scammers? Some of them just pick up stakes and start again — ripping off more people along the way. The FTC might haul them right back into court. But the unfortunate truth about some of these crooks is that nothing short of locking them up is going to stop them. That’s where the FTC’s Criminal Liaison Unit comes in.  The CLU teams up with prosecutors to get justice for consumers.

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