Mmmm I call bullshit. FTC is civil. Unless they decided to turn into a bunch of gangstas there is no way they can do that.
Link to article for confirmation please.
Actually you are....this is different from the Texas AG stuff, im talking guns drawn, employees detained then released, and the whole office cleared out.
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Feds crackdown on money making scams
Read the very bottom:
The FTC would like to acknowledge the assistance of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department and the Better Business Bureau of Southland, Inc., Colton, California, in connection with FTC v. In Deep Services, Inc.; and the Utah Department of Commerce’s Division of Consumer Protection and the Draper Police Department in connection with FTC v. Google Money Tree.
Poster is from Utah, a police dept was involved...could be some truth to this?
Ouch.
A lot of times the FTC will come in and seize the office, this happened in the past with edebitpay and i have seen it happen to a mortgage company that was in our building. Cops with guns drawn, leading people out of the office one by one. They do it so no information can be erased and they can catch the culprits easier.