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Features:
Business Guidance:
Screening
Advertisements: A Guide for the Media [PDF]
Press Releases:
(July 23, 2007)
Business Opportunity Marketers Pay $122,000 to Consumers to Settle FTC Charges
Prohibited from Making False Earnings Claims, Similar Deceptions in the Future
(June 4, 2007)
Scammer Says Goodbye to False Claims about Greeting Card Business Opportunity
(December 12, 2006)
Federal, State Law Enforcers Complete Bogus Business Opportunity Sweep
Crackdown Includes More Than 100 Law Enforcement Actions
(February
22, 2005)
Criminal
and Civil Enforcement Agencies Launch Major Assault
Against Promoters of Business Opportunity and Work-at-Home
Schemes
Enforcement Actions Taken Against More
Than 200 Operations
(September
7, 2004)
Bogus
California Operation Targets Hispanic Consumers with Work
at Home Opportunity Scam
(August 26, 2004)
Promoters
of Real Estate Investment Training Program Charged with
Making False Earnings Claims
(May 13, 2004)
Florida-Based
Company Settles FTC Charges
(May 1, 2004)
Alabama
Defendants Settle FTC Charges of Selling Fraudulent Business
Opportunities
(March 22, 2004)
Consumer
Protection Agencies from Around the World Meet in Finland
to Combat Cross-Border Fraud
(March 18, 2004)
FTC
Halts Fraudulent Computer Business
(March 3, 2004)
Miami-Based
Vending Machine Franchisors Banned from Marketing Business
Ventures
(January 21, 2004)
FTC
Cracks Down on Bogus Business Opportunities
(June 20, 2002)
State,
Federal Law Enforcers Launch Sting on Business Opportunity,
Work-at-Home Scams
(March 6, 2000)
State/Federal
Enforcement Sweeps Targeting Biz Op Fraud:Project Biz-illion$
(December 21, 1999)
Project
'Come-Again Cops'
(September 3, 1998)
Operation
"VEnd-Up-Broke"
(May 5, 1998)
Operation
"Show Time"
(February 20, 1998)
Operation
"Money Pit"
(January 28, 1998)
Operation
"Housecall"
(September 11, 1997)
Operation
"Yankee Trader"
(August 5, 1997)
Operation
"Trade Name Games"
(November 13, 1996)
Project
"Missed Fortune"
(March 7, 1996)
Project
"Buylines"
(July 18, 1995)
Project "Telesweep"
(February 7, 1996)
Examples
of Business Opportunity Scams [PDF]
(February 7, 1996)
The
Surge in Bogus Business Opportunities
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