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Opinion 06-1
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Discusses whether franchisors can seek leads by placing advertisements on employment websites.
Federal Register Notice
Public Workshop: Negative Options: An FTC Workshop Analyzing Negative Option Marketing
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FTC To Hold Public Workshop on Negative Option Marketing
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The Federal Trade Commission will host a workshop on January 25, 2007, in Washington, DC, to analyze the marketing of goods and services through offers with negative option features. The workshop...
Scammers Targeting Spanish-Speakers Will Turn Over Assets
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Operators who promised Spanish-speaking consumers “designer” merchandise but delivered knock-offs and outdated electronics will give up approximately $235,000 to settle FTC charges that their scam...
Federal, State Law Enforcers Complete Bogus Business Opportunity Sweep
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced Project FAL$E HOPE$, a federal and state law enforcement sweep targeting bogus business opportunities and work-at-home scams. The crackdown includes more...
FTC Launches Redress Program for ChoicePoint Identity Theft Victims
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Today, the Federal Trade Commission mailed claim forms for reimbursement to more than 1,400 consumers who may have been victims of identity theft due to alleged security lapses at data broker...
FTC Permanently Halts Unlawful Spyware Operations
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Defendants involved with operations that secretly downloaded spyware that changed settings on consumers’ computers, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their practices violated...
Guidance Software, Inc. Settles FTC Charges
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Guidance Software Inc. has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its failure to take reasonable security measures to protect sensitive customer data contradicted security promises...
Safeco Ins. Co. v. Burr; GEICO Gen. Ins. Co. v. Edo
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Citation Number
06-84, 06-100
Joint brief of the United States and the Federal Trade Commission, as amici curiae in these consolidated cases, urging vacatur and remand in Safeco, and reversal in GEICO. The brief argues that, under...
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Court Shuts Down Media Motor Spyware Operation
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A U.S. district court has shut down an operation that secretly downloaded multiple malevolent software programs, including spyware, onto millions of computers without consumers’ consent, degrading...
Nov06
Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade
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The FTC held public hearings to bring together experts from the business, government, and technology sectors, consumer advocates, academicians, and law enforcement officials to explore the ways in...
USA Home Loans, Inc., also d/b/a USA Home Lending, Inc., et al., United States of America (for the FTC)
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
042-3148
FTC: Three Pills and Special Soap Obesity Treatment Wont Wash Away the Pounds
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The Federal Trade Commission is charging the sellers of the “Centro Natural de Salud Obesity Treatment” with making false and unsubstantiated claims that their product causes rapid, substantial, and...
Integrity Security & Investigation Services, Inc.
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
062 3101
Sep27
New York Hispanic Fraud Prevention Forum
The FTC, the United States Postal Inspection Service, the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, and the Manhattan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce hosted a forum that gathered law...
FTC Warns Advertisers and Media That Ads May Be Deceptive
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The Federal Trade Commission has sent letters to 166 advertisers and 77 media outlets warning them that their advertisements targeting Hispanics are potentially deceptive. The ads were spotted during...
FTC Announces New Successes in Campaign to Stop Fraud Targeting Hispanics
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced its latest law enforcement actions against scammers targeting Hispanics with their unlawful business practices. The cases, part of the FTC’s Hispanic...
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