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Business Opportunity Rule

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The Business Opportunity Rule requires business opportunity sellers to give prospective buyers specific information to help them evaluate a business opportunity, thus ensuring that the prospective...

FTC Warns of Gulf Oil Spill Job Scams

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Scammers who prey on people eager for work have turned their attention to the Gulf oil spill. Bogus ads for oil spill clean-up jobs in the Gulf are appearing in newspapers, online, and in e-mail...
Jun01

Business Opportunity Rule Workshop

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a day-long public workshop on June 1, 2009 in Washington, DC, to explore proposed changes to the FTC’s Business Opportunity Rule. The workshop, which is free and...
Jul15

Help Your Military Patrons Avoid Scams

Every year, servicemembers, veterans, and their families report losing millions of dollars to fraud and scams – there were 99,000 fraud reports that accounted for $584 million in losses in 2024. Join...

Care.com, Inc., FTC v.

The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against Care.com (Care), alleging that the child and older adult care gig platform has systematically deceived caregivers who were looking for jobs while failing to give families seeking care a simple way to cancel their paid memberships.

In a federal court complaint, the FTC alleges that Care’s marketing messages about both the number of jobs available on their site and the amount workers could expect to be paid were deceptive.

Care has agreed to a settlement that will require it to turn over $8.5 million to be used to refund consumers harmed by their practices, as well as requiring the company to be able to back up the earnings claims it makes and be honest about the number of jobs available on their site.

The FTC on June 24, 2025, sent more than $8.1 million to consumers harmed by Care.com’s deceptive practices. 

Type of Action
Federal
Case Status
Pending
Business Blog

Job scammers go even lower in the way they “hire”

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You’ve heard about scammers impersonating government agencies, global retailers, and even members of your family. The latest variation on the scheme targets business professionals, luring them in with...
Business Blog

Taking the “ploy” out of employment scams

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The workplace is in transition, with people considering career changes or dealing with layoffs. But as the FTC has warned for years, scammers find a way to exploit every trend – and this time they...