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Company: Alternatel Inc., Voice Prepaid Inc., G.F.G. Enterprises LLC d/b/a Mystic Prepaid, Voice Distributors Inc. and Telecom Express Inc.
Penalty: $2,250,000
Year: 2009
Date: February 10, 2009
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: A group of prepaid calling card companies agreed to pay $2.25 million to resolve Federal Trade Commission allegations that they made false claims to consumers about the number of minutes of talk time their prepaid calling cards would provide.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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