FTC challenges bloated weight-loss claims
By: Seena Gressin | Apr 21, 2017 11:05AM
Silence may be golden, but not when it comes to contract clauses that would muzzle consumer complaints. That’s one message from an FTC settlement with the makers of NutriMost weight-loss products. Here’s another: don’t make weight-loss claims without scientific evidence to back them.
Debt collector for governments made false threats
By: Seena Gressin | Mar 24, 2017 1:08PM
An FTC lawsuit has put the brakes on a debt collection operation that the agency says used deception to collect traffic tickets, court fines, and other municipal debts for more than 300 local governments in eight Southern and Midwestern states.
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