Commission Actions

Three of the nation’s largest Internet service providers, America Online, Inc. (AOL), CompuServe, Inc., and Prodigy Services Corporation, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations...

In a crack down on cross border fraud, the Federal Trade Commission has obtained a court order temporarily halting a credit card laundering service that allowed Canadian telemarketers to bilk U.S...

Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval of a transaction from the following entity. The FTC is seeking public comments on the application for 30...

Today, in a live online business forum, officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) announced that 215 of the hundreds of business...

Defendants in two of the eight cases filed as part of Project Jackpot -- a nationwide crackdown by federal and state regulators on phony prize promotions and recovery room fraud -- have negotiated...

As part of its ongoing periodic review of its rules and guides, the Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment about whether to amend its Guides for Private Vocational Schools to add a...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it will hold public hearings on its Joint Venture Project beginning June 2, 1997. The hearings, as well as public comments, will allow the Commission...

The maker of an over-the-counter calcium supplement and the Federal Trade Commission have agreed to settle charges that advertising claims it made about the product’s effectiveness in preventing...