Jack B. Stein

Volume 62 · 62 F.T.C. 669

Citation: 62 F.T.C. 669
Docket: C-315
Complaint: 1963-02-19
Decision: 1963-02-19
Document type: consent order
Case type: consumer protection
Statutes: FTC Act (section 5)
Industry: skip-tracing forms for collections
Outcome: consent order entered
Relief: cease_and_desist; compliance_reporting
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Jack B. Stein, 62 F.T.C. 669 (1963). Consumer Law Library, https://consumerlawlibrary.org/decisions/v062-0036

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Order status: presumptively_terminable_pre_1995. Sunset may be extended by the latest qualifying federal-court complaint alleging an order violation; complaints, dismissal/appeal outcomes, and respondent-specific extensions are not fully tracked.

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In Tthe MatTrer oF JACK B. STEIN TRADING AS UNIVERSAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS OF NEW JERSEY CONSENT ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket C-315. Complaint, Feb. 19, 1968—Decision, Feb. 19, 1963 Consent order requiring a Newark, N.J., seller of skip-tracing forms to collection agencies, finance and loan companies, dealers selling on installment accounts, ete., to cease using such subterfuges to obtain information concerning the purchasers’ delinquent debtors as simulating official and government forms and United States Government checks, arranging for mailing the forms from Washington, D.C., with official sounding names on the return envelopes, and representing falsely that debtors would collect a substantial sum of money by filling in the questionnaires. UNIVERSAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS OF NEW JERSEY 669 663 Syllabus other material or by any manner or means unless such is the fact ;

(b) Products contain or are made or composed in whole or in part of gold, natural stones, Mother-of-Pearl, Turquoise or any other material or substance not actually used or contained therein ;

(c) Any of respondents’ products not actually made or produced by Indians or any other race or group have been so made or produced ;

(d) Imitation pearls are genuine pearls. 3. Furnishing or otherwise placing in the hands of retailers or dealers the means and instrumentalities by and through which they may mislead or deceive the public in the manner or as to the things hereinbefore prohibited.

VY Decision oF THE COMMISSION AND Orpver To Fite Report or Compliance Pursuant to Section 4.19 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, effective June 1, 1962, the initial decision of the hearing examiner shall on the 19th day of February 1963, become the decision of the Commission; and accordingly :

It is ordered, That respondents herein shall, within sixty (60) days after service upon them of this order, file with the Commission a report in writing setting forth in detail the manner and form in which they have complied with the order to cease and desist.

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