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Semiannual Federal Court Litigation Status Report- June 2017
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Quarterly Litigation Status Report (June 2017)
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FTC, State of Georgia Obtain Court Order Permanently Halting Electronics Buyback Scheme
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A Federal court has granted a request from the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Georgia to permanently bar the deceptive business practices of an electronics buyback company that misled...
FTC Staff Provides Annual Financial Acts Enforcement Report to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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The staff of the Federal Trade Commission has provided its 2016 Annual Financial Acts Enforcement Report to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on enforcement and related activities regarding...
FTC Stops False Advertising, Phony Reviews by Online Trampoline Sellers
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Two brothers have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that in marketing and selling their trampolines, they deceived consumers by directing them to review websites that claimed to be...
FTC Sends Additional Refund Checks Totaling Almost $2 Million to People Who Bought Green Coffee Weight-Loss Supplements
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The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 38,553 refund checks totaling $1.9 million to people who bought Pure Health or Genesis Today green coffee bean extract supplements from retailers such as...
Refunds Now Available from Amazon for Unauthorized In-App Purchases
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Amazon.com, Inc. has begun offering refunds to consumers for unauthorized in-app charges incurred by children. More than $70 million in charges incurred between November 2011 and May 2016 may be...
FTC Stops Operators of Unlawful Student Debt Relief and Credit Repair Scheme
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The Federal Trade Commission charged the operators of a phony student loan debt relief and credit repair scheme with bilking millions of dollars from consumers by falsely promising to reduce or...
May24
Identity Theft: Planning for the Future
Ten years ago, President Bush launched a new era in the fight against identity theft by issuing an executive order establishing the Identity Theft Task Force, which the Commission co-chaired. In the...
FTC Submits Annual Budget Request, Performance Plan and Performance Report to Congress
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The Federal Trade Commission submitted to Congress its Fiscal Year 2018 budget request to Congress, in support of the President’s FY 2018 budget for the federal government. The budget request also...
FTC and Florida Halt Massive Debt Relief Scam
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Florida, a federal court has temporarily halted a massive phony debt relief operation that bilked tens of millions of dollars from...
FTC Conference to Focus on Evolution of Identity Theft
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WHAT: The U.S. Federal Trade Commission will host an all-day conference to take a comprehensive look at how identity theft has evolved over the last decade and what we can do to address this challenge...
Federal Judge Approves FTC Order for Owners of Certain Volkswagen, Audi, and Porsche 3.0 Liter “Clean” Diesels to Receive Refunds
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A federal district court judge in San Francisco today signed a settlement negotiated by the Federal Trade Commission and private plaintiffs providing for consumer redress and starting the formal...
FTC and Federal, State and International Partners Announce Major Crackdown on Tech Support Scams
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The Federal Trade Commission, along with federal, state and international law enforcement partners, today announced “Operation Tech Trap,” a nationwide and international crackdown on tech support...
FTC and Partner Agencies to Announce Nationwide Consumer Fraud Enforcement Initiative
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the Florida Office of the Attorney General will host a press conference in Tampa, Florida at noon on Friday, May 12 to announce a major consumer fraud enforcement...
FTC Returns Money to Victims of Bogus Business Services Scam
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The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 1,187 checks totaling more than $48,000 to people who lost money to CPU Service Inc., a company that sent fake invoices to more than 150,000 small businesses to...
AFR Financial, LLC
Type of Action
Process Enforcement
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FTC Matter/File Number
1523038
Case Status
Closed
New FTC Website Helps Small Businesses Avoid Scams and Cyber Attacks
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At the direction of Acting Chairman Maureen Ohlhausen, the Federal Trade Commission has launched a new website – ftc.gov/SmallBusiness – with articles, videos, and other information aimed at helping...
FTC Action Stops Unsupported Claims for Opiate Withdrawal Treatments
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A company that marketed itself as “the leader in home opiate detox since 2009” and its CEO have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that the withdrawal treatment claims for their “Withdrawal Ease...
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