Nevada Code § 598.746

Prohibited acts: Receiving money before complete performance; receiving money for referral to provider of credit; misleading statements; other fraudulent or deceptive acts
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organization and its agents, employees and representatives who sell or attempt
to sell the services of the organization, shall not:
1. Charge or receive any money or other
valuable consideration before full and complete performance of the services the
organization has agreed to perform for or on behalf of the buyer.
2. Charge or receive any money or other
valuable consideration solely for referral of the buyer to a retail seller who
will or may extend credit to the buyer, if the credit which is or will be
extended to the buyer is upon substantially the same terms as those available
to the general public.
3. Make, counsel or advise any buyer to
make, any statement which is untrue or misleading and which is known, or which
by the exercise of reasonable care should be known, to be untrue or misleading,
to a consumer credit reporting agency or to any person who has extended credit
to a buyer or to whom a buyer is applying for an extension of credit, with
respect to a buyers creditworthiness, credit standing or credit capacity.
4. Make or use any untrue or misleading
representations in the offer or sale of the services of an organization. For
the purposes of this subsection, a misleading representation includes a
guarantee that:
(a) The organization is able to remove
information that is adverse to the buyers ability to obtain credit from the
buyers credit record, history or rating.
(b) The organization is able to obtain an
extension of credit for the buyer regardless of the buyers existing credit
record, history or rating.
5. Engage, directly or indirectly, in any
act, practice or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud
or deception upon any person in connection with the offer or sale of the
services of an organization.
6. Remove, or assist or advise the buyer
to remove from the buyers credit record, history or rating, information that
is adverse to the buyers ability to obtain credit if the information is
accurate and not obsolete.
7. Create, or assist or advise the buyer
to create a new credit record, history or rating by using a different name,
address, social security number, employee identification number or other
misleading information.
8. Attempt to transfer or assign the
organizations certificate of registration.
9. Submit a buyers dispute to a consumer
credit reporting agency without the buyers knowledge.
10. Call, or authorize any other person
who is not the buyer to call a consumer credit reporting agency and portray
himself or herself as the buyer.

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