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Utah Operation Responsible for Making More Than 117 Million Illegal Telemarketing Calls to Consumers Settles Federal Trade Commission Charges

Date

March 16, 2018

Three Utah-based firms and their owner, which a federal court jury in 2016 found deceptively and illegally called more than 117 million consumers pitching their movies, have agreed to a proposed court...

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FTC Sending Refund Checks Totaling More Than $437,000 to Consumers Who Bought Bogus Weight-loss Products

Date

March 15, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 18,301 refund checks totaling more than $437,000 to people who bought bogus weight-loss products from Colby Fox, Christopher Reinhold and their companies...

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FTC Proposes Repeal of Picture Tube Rule

Date

March 13, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission is proposing to repeal its Picture Tube Rule. The Rule (formally, the “Trade Regulation Rule Concerning the Deceptive Advertising as to Sizes of Viewable Pictures Shown by...

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Nectar Brand LLC Agrees to Settle FTC Charges that Company’s Claims about Chinese-Made Mattresses Being ‘Assembled in USA’ Are False

Date

March 13, 2018

A California-based company has agreed to stop making false claims that its Chinese-made mattresses are assembled in the United States, under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. According...

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Defendants Settle FTC Charges in ‘Money Now Funding’ Credit Card Laundering Scheme

Date

March 12, 2018

Michael Abdelmesseh and KMA Merchant Services LLC have agreed to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit for laundering credit card charges for Money Now Funding (MNF), a business opportunity scheme...

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FTC Sending Refund Checks Totaling More Than $7.2 Million to Consumers Who Bought Deceptively Marketed “Buy-One-Get-One-Free” Products

Date

March 12, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 218,254 refund checks totaling more than $7.2 million to people who bought products deceptively marketed as “buy-one-get-one-free,” including Snuggies, the...

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FTC and FCC Seek Exhibitors for an Expo Featuring Technologies to Block Illegal Robocalls

Date

March 7, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are seeking exhibitors for their joint Stop Illegal Robocalls Expo, which will be held Monday, April 23, 2018 in the FCC’s...

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FTC and FCC to Host Joint Policy Forum and Consumer Expo to Fight the Scourge of Illegal Robocalls

Date

March 7, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission today announced two upcoming events aimed at furthering the fight against illegal robocalls and caller ID spoofing. The agencies...

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Event

The Contact Lens Rule and the Evolving Contact Lens Marketplace

March 7, 2018 | 9:00AM - 5:15PM

The Federal Trade Commission held a public workshop in Washington, DC, on March 7, 2018 to explore issues regarding competition in the contact lens marketplace, consumer access to contact lenses...

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FTC to Host Workshop March 7 Examining the Contact Lens Marketplace and Proposed Changes to the Commission’s Contact Lens Rule

Date

March 6, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop on Wednesday, March 7, in Washington, DC, to examine the contact lens marketplace and proposed changes to the Commission’s Contact Lens Rule. The...

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FTC Obtains Court Order Against Final Defendant in Phantom Debt Scheme

Date

March 5, 2018

The final defendant in an operation that posed as lawyers and falsely threatened to sue people or have them arrested for failing to pay on debts they did not owe is banned from the debt collection...

Press Release

FTC to Hold Twitter Chat on 20th Anniversary of COPPA

Date

March 5, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission will host a Twitter chat to discuss the 20 th anniversary of the passage of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). Acting FTC Chairman Maureen K. Ohlhausen...

Report

Federal Trade Commission Cigarette Report For 2016 and Federal Trade Commission Smokeless Tobacco Report For 2016

Date

March 1, 2018

Text of the Cigarette Report For 2016 (March 2018) (589.59 KB)

Text of the Smokeless Tobacco Report For 2016 (March 2018) (632.01 KB)

Press Release

FTC Celebrates 20th Anniversary of National Consumer Protection Week

Date

March 1, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission and its partners across the country will participate in the 20th anniversary of National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW), held March 4-10, 2018. NCPW is a nationally...

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FTC Releases Annual Summary of Complaints Reported by Consumers

Date

March 1, 2018

Note: A conference call for media with Tom Pahl, Acting Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, was held on March 1, 2018 at 1 p.m. ET. FTC staff were available to take questions from the...

Report

Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book 2017

Date

March 1, 2018

The FTC takes in reports from consumers about problems they experience in the marketplace. The reports are stored in the Consumer Sentinel Network (Sentinel), a secure online database available only...

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Press Release

FTC to Release Annual Consumer Sentinel Data Book

Date

February 28, 2018

The Federal Trade Commission will release its annual Consumer Sentinel Data Book summarizing consumer complaints about fraud, identity theft and other consumer concerns and will host a conference call...

Press Release

FTC Approves Sears Holdings Management Corporation Petition to Reopen and Modify Commission Order Concerning Tracking Software

Date

February 28, 2018

Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a petition by Sears Holding Management requesting that the FTC reopen and modify a 2009 FTC order settling charges that...

Report

Mobile Security Updates: Understanding the Issues

Date

February 28, 2018

Text of the Commission Mobile Security Updates Report (4.34 MB)

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FTC Recommends Steps to Improve Mobile Device Security Update Practices

Date

February 28, 2018

A new Federal Trade Commission report finds that the complexity of the mobile ecosystem means that the security update process for patching operating system software on some mobile devices is...

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