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Stopping COVID-19 Fraud and Price Gouging
Letter from FTC Commissioner Wilson to Representatives Schakowsky Rodgers and Bilirakis re IRS Planned Use of Facial Recognition
Letter from FTC Commissioner Wilson to Senator Wyden re IRS Planned Use of Facial Recognition
Letter from FTC Commissioner Wilson to Senators Cantwell and Wicker re IRS Planned Use of Facial Recognition
Fashion Nova, LLC; Analysis of Proposed Consent Order To Aid Public Comment
FTC Comment to Food and Drug Administration Supports Agency’s Proposed Rule on Establishing Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids
Vision Path, Inc., Online Seller of Hubble Lenses, Settles Charges it Violated the Contact Lens Rule and FTC Act to Boost Sales
Auto Marketing Company Banned from Industry Under FTC Order
FTC Finds Huge Surge in Consumer Reports about Losing Money To Scams Initiated Through Social Media
Vision Path, Inc., d/b/a Hubble Contacts, U.S. v.
In January 2022, New York City-based Vision Path, Inc., the online seller of direct-to-consumer Hubble lenses, agreed pay penalties and redress totaling $3.5 million to settle FTC charges that it violated the Contact Lens Rule in several ways, including by failing to obtain prescriptions and to properly verify prescription information, and by substituting Hubble lenses for those actually prescribed to consumers. The FTC also alleged the company violated the FTC Act when it failed to disclose that many reviews of Hubble lenses were not by unbiased consumers but were written by reviewers who were compensated for their reviews, and, in at least one instance, by one of its own executives.
Remaining Defendants Banned from Providing Student Loan Debt Relief Services in Settlements with FTC
Arete Financial Group
In November 2019, the Federal Trade Commission obtained a temporary restraining order halting an operation that bilked consumers out of millions of dollars by pretending to be affiliated with the U.S. Department of Education and falsely promising student loan debt relief. In September 2020, the FTC announced several of the operators settled FTC charges and agreed to pay at least $835,000. In January 2022, the FTC announced that the remaining defendants in the case are banned from providing student loan debt relief services in settlements with the FTC. The defendants are required to forfeit all of their frozen funds held by the receiver. The Commission plans to use the money recovered in this case for consumer refunds.
Fashion Nova will Pay $4.2 Million as part of Settlement of FTC Allegations it Blocked Negative Reviews of Products
FTC Returns More Than $3.7 Million To Consumers Harmed by Online Lender Avant
Avant, LLC
The Federal Trade Commission is returning more than $3.7 million to consumers who lost money because of unfair and deceptive loan servicing practices by online lender Avant, LLC.
The FTC sued Avant in April 2019, alleging that the company falsely advertised that it would accept payments by credit or debit cards, when in fact it did not. This often resulted in customers being charged additional interest on their loans as they tried to arrange a different form of payment. The FTC also alleged that the company withdrew money from customers’ bank accounts or charged their credit cards without authorization, failed to properly and timely credit payments made by check, provided deceptive payoff quotes to customers, and tried to collect more money than the quoted payoff amount.
FTC Marks Identity Theft Awareness Week for 2022 January 31-February 4
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