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Volume 13 Number 2


Career and Business Opportunities Banned Scam


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development program. According to the FTC’s complaint, one way the defendants pushed these sales was by falsely claiming they had special access to lenders who could provide consumers with corporate credit for which they would not be personally liable. loans,


Instead from of getting companies that business


the FTC’s complaint alleges consumers who bought these programs were often subjected to more sales calls


simply


helped consumers apply for personal credit cards. In the recording the FTC submitted to the court, the salesman claimed new businesses could obtain a line of corporate credit in three to four weeks. The FTC submitted an audio file to the court that contains this portion of the call.


District Court for the District of Utah approved both settlements


surrender certain assets, including


the remaining funds in the corporate defendants’ bank accounts, to the FTC.


was run out of various offices near Salt Lake City, Utah. All the defendants have been prohibited from offering business coaching or development services


The scheme began in 2014 and since May 2018, when


the FTC filed its complaint and the defendants stipulated to temporary restraining orders that were entered by the court. Now those prohibitions are permanent.


consumers using contact information obtained


On Oct. 25, 2018, the U.S. Internet in the


case. One settlement imposes an $8.4 million judgment against defendants Jared Rodabaugh, Vision Solution Marketing LLC, and Ryze Services, LLC. The other settlement imposes a $6.75 million judgment on defendants Justin Larsen, VSM Group LLC, and Specialized LLC.


Consulting Solutions According to the FTC’s


complaint, defendants Rodabaugh and Larsen are the owners of the corporate defendants. Both judgments will be partially suspended after defendants


The defendants in this case called from


operations that were the subject of recent FTC enforcement Teaching and


two separate actions:


Training


Specialists, LLC, or ITT, and Bob Robinson, LLC. In January 2018, the FTC entered into a settlement in the ITT case in the District of Nevada, and in December 2017, the FTC entered into a settlement in the Bob Robinson, LLC, case in the Southern District of Texas.


the agreed-upon settlements was 5-0. The


acknowledges invaluable


The Commission vote approving FTC


the assistance provided by


the Utah Department of Commerce’s Division of Consumer Protection in this case.


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