FTC Says Utah Woman Agrees in Settlement to Ban From Telemarketing, Other Activities
A Utah woman allegedly involved in a bilking scheme is banned from telemarketing, processing payments and selling grant and business opportunities under a settlement order, the FTC said Tuesday. A commission complaint alleged that Jamie White "enabled telemarketing operations to…
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sell a phony grants program and a worthless moneymaking opportunity purportedly involving customized websites linked to Amazon.com," said a release. "She supplied consumers with instructions on applying for grants that did not exist, and generic websites that could not generate enough web traffic to provide any of the promised income." The FTC also said she allegedly "provided the telemarketers with fraudulent merchant accounts to process consumer credit card payments." The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona entered the order Dec. 21, the FTC said. White couldn't be reached for comment.