According the Federal Trade Commission, identity theft replaced debt collection as the top subject of complaints by consumers in 2009. According to a recently published report, the FTC received more than 278,000 complaints related to identity theft. In previous years, debt collection had ranked number one, but it is now number two. Debt collectors apparently [...]
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Jun
Caller ID “Spoofing” To Become Illegal
Well, it’s about time… In April 2010, the House passed the “Truth in Caller ID Act of 2010” (pdf). The bill, which passed the Senate last February, makes it illegal “to cause any caller ID service to transmit misleading or inaccurate caller ID information, with the intent to defraud or deceive.” Congress has been tooling [...]
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