Commission Actions

Gateway, Inc., one of the largest domestic marketers of personal computers ("PCs"), has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that the company misrepresented the cost of its "Gateway...

Commission denial of petition for rulemaking proceeding: The Commission has denied a petition requesting an FTC rulemaking proceeding regarding: The advertising and marketing of basmati and jasmine...

The Federal Trade Commission has reached a consent agreement with Juno Online Services, Inc. ("Juno"), a national Internet Service Provider ("ISP"), over charges that advertising for its "free" and...

Following the Federal Trade Commission and Canadian law enforcement authorities recent announcement of the broadest sweeps ever targeting international credit card "protection" fraud, the Commission...

The staff of the Bureau of Economics and of Policy Planning of the Federal Trade Commission has submitted comments to the Energy Information Administration (EIA) concerning EIA's proposal to expand...

The Federal Trade Commission and the National Advertising Division ("NAD") of the Council of Better Business Bureaus will hold a free one-day public workshop on May 22, 2001. It will explore how...

Consent agreements given final approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved two final consent agreements in related matters with the following: 1) Hoechst Marion Roussel...

As part of its ongoing "Project ScholarScam," a law enforcement and consumer education effort to combat fraudulent scholarship promotion schemes, the Federal Trade Commission announced that College...