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Ultralife Fitness, Inc., dba Pure Health Laboratories, et al.
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
062 3146
Internet Marketers of Dietary Supplement for Weight Loss Agree to Pay $150,000
Date
A Utah-based operation that lured online customers with free samples of a purported weight-loss supplement in a scheme to obtain their credit or debit card information has agreed to pay $150,000 to...
New Rules Requiring an Automated Voice or Keypress Opt-Out for Recorded Message Telemarketing Calls Take Effect Today
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Effective today, any telemarketing call that delivers a prerecorded message must include a quick and easy way to opt-out of receiving future calls. The opt-out must work both for consumers who answer...
Concurring Statement of Commissioner Leibowitz Regarding Rescission of FTC Guidance on Cigarette Testing Methodology
Date
By
Jon Leibowitz, Former Chairman
Matter Number
P944509
FTC Rescinds Guidance from 1966 on Statements Concerning Tar and Nicotine Yields
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The Federal Trade Commission has rescinded guidance issued in 1966 that generally permitted statements concerning tar and nicotine yields if they were based on the Cambridge Filter Method, sometimes...
Ripoff Artists Target Grandparents
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Complaints are on the rise about a scam that preys on a grandparent’s love, according to the Federal Trade Commission. A scammer calls posing as a grandchild in distress, and tries to put the squeeze...
Nov21
Emerging Health Care Competition and Consumer Issues: Competition Issues Involving Follow-on Biologic Drugs
The Federal Trade Commission will hold two roundtables on emerging health care competition and consumer issues. They will focus on two distinct areas in which competition and consumer protection...
Nationwide Debt Collector Will Pay $2.25 Million to Settle FTC Charges
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Academy Collection Service, Inc. and its owner, Keith Dickstein, have agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that Academy and its collectors misled, threatened, and...
Court Orders Halt to Sale of Spyware
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. District Court has issued a temporary restraining order halting the sale of keylogger spyware. According to the FTC’s complaint, the Florida...
FTC Charges Internet Payday Lenders with Failing to Disclose Key Loan Terms and Using Abusive and Deceptive Collection Tactics
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The Federal Trade Commission and the State of Nevada have charged 10 related Internet payday lenders and their principals, based mainly in the United Kingdom, with violating federal and state law by...
Court Prohibits Finance Company From Unfair and Deceptive Collection Tactics
Date
Under the terms of a federal court order announced by the Federal Trade Commission today, a finance company that the Commission charged with unfairly collecting on equipment leasing contracts and...
Marketers of Dietary Supplements Ordered to Halt False Claims About Diabetes Prevention and Treatment
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The marketers of dietary supplements that purportedly prevented and treated diabetes have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they engaged in deceptive advertising practices. According to...
Glucorell, Inc., Anafit, Inc., Laurence Berube, and Jerel Scott Ferguson
Type of Action
Federal
Last Updated
FTC Matter/File Number
072 3180
Mortgage Company Settles Data Security Charges
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A Texas-based mortgage lender has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law by failing to provide reasonable security to protect sensitive customer data. The lender made...
FTC Denies Requests to Extend Time Period for Seeking Comments on Proposed Amendments to its Rules of Practice Regarding Adjudicative Proceedings
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The Federal Trade Commission today denied requests that the Commission extend the time within which public comments can be filed on proposed revisions to Parts 3 and 4 of the agency’s Rules of...
FTC Launches New Web Site for Kids
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The Federal Trade Commission today launched a new Web site to introduce kids to key consumer and business concepts. Set in a shopping mall, http://www.ftc.gov/YouAreHere takes kids on an experiential...
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