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09/24/2012
If you use credit cards or owe money on loan, you are considered to be “in debt.” If you fall behind on a payment to your creditors, you may be contacted by a debt collector. Your Better Business Bureau has received close to 50 complaints in the past month against collection agencies and is reminding consumers about their rights.
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07/25/2012
While there is currently no foolproof way for consumers to stop these calls except for changing telephone numbers, the Wisconsin BBB has some suggestions to help prevent and stop them.
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02/15/2012
Consumers across the country are telling the Better Business Bureau that they are being harassed by recent "robo calls" to their home and cell phones that offer to lower their interest rates.
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09/27/2011
Better Business Bureau advises consumers to be wary of unsolicited calls claiming they have won gift cards from local stores. The scam is meant to lure people away from their homes, giving burglars the opportunity to break in.
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04/29/2010
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, along with Graco and Simplicity, has recalled hundreds of thousands of cribs due to possibility of suffocation or strangulation.
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02/04/2010
The following Toyota and Honda recall information was provided by www.Toyota.com/recall and http://www.honda.com/newsandviews/article.aspx?id=5376.
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01/11/2010
Free trial offers and scams that take advantage of tough economic times dominate the list.
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03/01/2003
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has amended the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) to give consumers a choice about whether they want to receive most telemarketing calls. Consumers soon will be able to put their phone numbers on a national "do not call" registry. It will be illegal for most telemarketers or sellers to call a number listed on the registry.
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11/01/1993
When dialing pay-per-call services, consumers did not always know how much the call would cost and what they would get for their money. To help them get this information more readily, Congress passed the Telephone Disclosure and Dispute Resolution Act in 1992. This Act required the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to adopt rules governing the pay-per-call services industry. The FTC's 900-Number Rule, which became effective November 1, 1993, covers the advertising and operation of pay-per-call services, as well as billing and collection procedures for those services.
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