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Buffalo, NY — (ReleaseWire) — 03/07/2018 — Question: What industry receives the top number of consumer complaints at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) every year? Answer: Debt relief.
Each year the FTC goes to bat for debtors by taking companies in the debt relief industry to court. In 2017 alone, the agency mailed thousands of checks to people who paid up front for debt relief and ended up further behind due to the fees and false claims made by debt consolidation, debt settlement, or debt relief companies.
But the checks from the FTC barely made a dent in what the individuals had lost. Scott Laughlin, vice president, Community and Creditor Relations of the nonprofit Consu…
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