NATIONAL CHECK CONTROL

.The FTC will distribute $1.6 million to thousands of people who were scammed into paying money they didn’t owe by con artists who threatened, harassed and lied to them. In 2003, the FTC sued three companies, operating under the name National Check Control; in 2005, the court stopped their operations and ordered them to pay redress to the people they’d bilked. The redress funds will go to nearly 25,000 people who lost $100 or more each. Read the press release.