Commission Actions

Two spam merchants who hijacked consumers’ computers and turned them into spamming machines have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they sent illegal e-mails hawking mortgage...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today announced that FTC Chief of Staff Maryanne Kane will retire at the end of the month. The Chairman has appointed Brian Huseman, currently...

Release of Commission report: The Commission has authorized the staff to release publicly the 28th Annual Report to Congress on the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). This report, which is...

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Policy Planning, along with its Bureaus of Competition, Consumer Protection, and Economics, have filed comments with Florida State Senator Paula...

In comments provided this week to Hawaii State Senator Carol Fukunaga, Federal Trade Commission staff warned that a proposed registry for Hawaii children’s e-mail addresses may provide pedophiles and...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General of California have brought a permanent halt to an operation that sent millions of spam messages that violated federal and state laws. The...

The marketers of Pedia Loss, a purported children’s weight-loss product, and Fabulously Feminine, a supposed female libido enhancement product, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges...

The Federal Trade Commission is proposing a rule to protect consumers from bogus business opportunities and further enhance law enforcement efforts in this area. The rule would cover business...

Two corporate defendants and their principals have settled Federal Trade Commission charges for duping consumers into paying an advance fee for credit cards they never received, in violation of the...

Dos compañías demandadas y sus directivos han resuelto los cargos de la Comisión Federal de Comercio (Federal Trade Commission, FTC) en los cuales la FTC alega que los citados demandados engañaban a...