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Federal Trade Commission vs Global Circulation Inc
On October 29, 2024, the FTC brought action against Global Circulation Inc (GCI) issuing a temporary restraining order with asset freeze, appointment of a receiver and other equitable relief. The FTC alleges a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
The complaint alleges that GCI and Redon contacted consumers under a number of fictitious company names, including Total Mediation Solutions, Total Consumer Solutions, and Consumer Impact Recovery. The company’s collectors call consumers out of the blue and threaten them with arrest, wage garnishment, and lawsuits if they don’t pay a supposed debt.
According to the complaint, however, the debts GCI is attempting to collect either don’t exist at all or are not debts GCI can legally collect. The company’s calls to consumers can be incessant, with some receiving calls multiple times a day, leaving voicemails saying to call about an urgent legal matter. When consumers answer, they’re told that, unless they pay the bogus debts on that phone call using a credit or debit card, they’ll face legal peril.
In other instances, according to the complaint, GCI calls consumers’ family members, making similar threats of legal action, and those calls have continued even after the company has been in contact with the consumer from whom they are seeking to collect the bogus debt.
The company’s representatives regularly fail to identify themselves as debt collectors, which is required by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), and often have or claim to have sensitive personal information that they use to convince consumers that the demands for money are legitimate.
According to the complaint, GCI’s deceptive statements and the urgency behind them have helped convince thousands of consumers to pay a monetary judgment of $9,684,338 million in bogus debts to the company.
The court’s temporary restraining order, issued on October 29, 2024, freezes the defendants’ assets and puts the company under the control of a court-appointed receiver while the case continues.
For more details go to: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/05/ftc-ban-debt-collector-who-allegedly-coerced-consumers-paying-debt-they-didnt-owe
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