FTC Sues Three over Robocall Violations

The Federal Trade Commission has sued three telemarketers for allegedly making hundreds of thousands of pre-recorded robocalls to consumers promoting worthless credit-card interest-rate reduction programs for upfront fees as high as $1,495.

Named as defendants were Economic Relief Technologies, LLC, Dynamic Financial Group (U.S.A.) Inc., and JPM Accelerated Services (JPM) and others, according to the FTC.

The FTC alleges the defendants broke the law by making illegal robocalls to consumers, and that their deceptive sales pitches violated the FTC Act and the FTC