FTC accuses telemarketers of credit card scam

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Shaumburg, IL-based Rockwell Holdings and Park Ridge, IL-based First Financial Solutions Inc. and American Benefits Club as well as an individual John E. Boone have all been charged by the FTC with perpetrating a telemarketing fraud. Consumers were offered credit cards for sending advanced fees of from $99.95 to $219.95. Most consumers received no credit cards.

Nonbank Credit Card Firms, Credit Card Issuing, Personal credit institutions, Telemarketing Services, Telemarketing Bureaus, Illinois, Business services, not elsewhere classified, Nonbank credit card services, Telemarketing, Rockwell Holdings, First Financial Solutions Inc., American Benefits Club

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Telephone upsell boosts cell-phone loyalty program

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Shared Technologies Cellular tested its new loyalty program. The company declared it a success when more than half of the customers who ordered the prepaid service by telephone bought an upsell.

Misc. Equipment Rental & Leasing, Equipment Leasing & Rental, Rental and Leasing Services, Equipment rental, Shared Technologies Cellular Inc.

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AMA urges more DTC ad disclosure

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The American Medical Association asked for increased disclosures in direct-to-consumer ads recently. The doctors say that such ads drive up medical costs.

Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Pharmaceutical and Medicine Manufacturing, Drugs

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