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On May 1, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a permanent ban from debt relief telemarketing for operators of debt relief scam. The FTC charged the defendants with taking tens of millions of dollars from people by falsely promising to eliminate or substantially reduce their creditcarddebt.
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