Opinion ID: 783768
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (TCFPA)

Text: 23 In the TCFPA, Congress directed the FTC to prescribe rules prohibiting deceptive and abusive telemarketing acts and practices, including calls that a reasonable consumer would consider coercive or abusive of such consumer's right to privacy. Pub. L. 103-297 at § 3 (Aug. 16, 1994). Congress found that consumers lose an estimated $40 billion each year in telemarketing fraud and are victimized by other forms of telemarketing deception and abuse. Id. at § 2. Significantly, Congress in the TCFPA defined the term telemarketing as calls conducted to induce purchases of goods or services, — e.g., commercial calls. Id. at § 7. This is the Act under which the FTC enacted the national do-not-call regulations challenged in this case.