The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigates a variety of scams from, cars, charity, credit and loan offers, debt relief, door-to-door, education, energy saving, fake check, foreclosure, free trials, funerals, immigration, imposter and lottery and sweepstakes. To counter these scams the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection uses data collected from complaints, which led to investigations into these companies breaking the law. The FTC's utilize an online complaint system that gathers information on different scam being perpetrated on consumers. One of the most notable scam seen is the foreign bank has money that was bequeath to me and all I needed to do to get these millions of dollars is send them my account information, so they may release

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