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A group of affiliate marketers has agreed to settle FTC charges that they blasted consumers with more than 30 million spam text messages and directed the recipients to deceptive websites.

California-based debt collector will pay $1 million dollars to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the defendants violated federal law.

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted a Tampa, Florida-based operation that promised to help consumers get payday loans.

This summer, the national Do Not Call Registry, managed by the Federal Trade Commission, turned 10 years old, and there are now a whopping 221 million phone numbers in the registry. But the calls keep coming. Telemarketing complaints at the FTC have risen from 150,393 in 2003 to nearly 4 million last year (roughly 2 million of those were robocall complaints).

The Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on affiliate marketers that allegedly bombarded consumers with hundreds of millions of unwanted spam text messages in an effort to steer them towards deceptive websites falsely promising “free” gift cards.

We have been under a DDoS attack since this morning. The traffic load has been immense with several thousands requests per second.

Last week, the Federal Trade Commission got a U.S. District Court in New York to shut down a robocall operation that allegedly scammed consumers by pretending to be the Federal Trade Commission.

“At the FTC, Rachel from Cardholder Services is public enemy number one,” said FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz. “We’re cracking down on illegal robocalls by bringing law enforcement actions and pursuing technical solutions to the problem.”

The Federal Trade Commission announced a multinational crackdown on so-called tech support scams, in which a caller fools a consumer into believing Microsoft or a computer security company has discovered that a PC is infected with harmful software. The caller then offers to fix the computer on the spot for a price. The target would sometimes let the ostensible tech support company gain remote access to his computer, allowing the company to download software to it.

A Texas-based burger chain has sued one of the country's largest debt collectors, contending that NCO Financial Services is harassing an unidentified employee by making calls to the company's San Antonio corporate headquarters despite a cease-and-desist letter.

A federal grand jury charged a California man with 21 counts of fraud Thursday in connection with a massive debt collection scam that was highlighted in an ABC News investigative report in June.

The growing number of ex-students overwhelmed with student-loan debt might want to consider a career switch and become a collector of overdue student loans.

The Federal Trade Commission has been cracking down on businesses that try to collect debts from consumers who don’t even owe.