FTC Ends Deceptive Prepaid Calling Card Scheme Targeting Immigrants

摘要

The Federal Trade Com-mission (FTC) stopped advertising from a prepaid phone card company-DR Phone Communications-that allegedly lied about the number of minutes cards actually provided and failed to divulge additional fees.The FTC bought and tested 169 of the company's cards and alleged none of them delivered the number of minutes advertised. The worst performing card gave less than 1 percent of the advertised minutes.rnThe FTC charged the company's ac-tions violate federal law and also named the company's website, drphonecom.com, and David Rosenthal as defendants.