FTC Settles With 'Massive' Robocall Charity Fraud
Associated Community Services and nearly a dozen affiliates settled with the FTC and 46 agencies from 38 states and Washington, D.C., on charges it "bombarded 67 million consumers with 1.3 billion deceptive charitable fundraising calls," many of which were robocalls,…
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to collect more than $110 million, a news release said Thursday. Pending court approval, ACS, its affiliates Community Services and Central Processing Services, and their owners are subject to monetary judgments of $110 million, the bulk "suspended due to an inability to pay." Funds will be paid to an escrow fund held by Florida and be "contributed to one or more legitimate charities that support causes similar to those for which the defendants solicited." The complaint also names two fundraising companies allegedly operated as spinoffs of ACS, Directele and The Dale Corp.