The staff of the Federal Trade Commission has filed a comment with the Public Service Commission of West Virginia about issues related to electric utility restructuring in the state. In addition, the...

Consumer complaints about crammers -- companies that use deceptive and unfair tactics to cram charges on consumers' phone bills --- are rising rapidly, according to the Federal Trade Commission. In...

The Federal Trade Commission and the British Columbia Ministry of Attorney General announced that starting today, uncashed checks and money orders totaling approximately $50,000 will be returned to...

WHAT: An increasing number of complaints about mystery charges on consumer telephone bills are piling up. Whether it's a one-time charge for a call to a dating service or a recurring monthly charge...

National Invention Services, Inc. (NISI), an invention promotion firm out of Cranford, New Jersey, and its president and CEO, John F. Lee, have agreed to pay approximately $745,000 in consumer redress...

The subject today is unsolicited commercial e-mail, better known as "spam" (with apologies to Hormel). Spam is a problem for practically everyone with a computer. It’s annoying, it slows down the e...

In its continuing attack on fraudulent unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE), the Federal Trade Commission today announced that it was publishing for public comment a proposed consent agreement with...

The Federal Trade Commission today released a list of the 12 most common scams found in unsolicited commercial e-mail -- spam. The list was culled from a sampling of more than 250,000 junk e-mail...

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

Operators of a company that used the allure of the Internet to peddle a fraudulent business opportunity have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their scheme violated federal laws...

Telemarketers who "guaranteed" consumers they could obtain unsecured credit cards -- even if the consumers had past credit problems -- for up-front "processing fees" have agreed to settle Federal...

The Federal Trade Commission on July 9 published two notices in the Federal Register about its rule that covers power output claims for amplifiers used in home entertainment products. As part of its...

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission on July 10 filed a comment with the Commonwealth of Virginia's Structure and Transition Task Force. This legislative subcommittee is studying electric utility...

Alvin R. Lundgren, principal of Lundgren & Associates, P.C., has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that he repeatedly violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and...

The Federal Trade Commission has revised its dealer and consumer publications that explain the Used Car Rule. According to industry statistics, more than 40 million used cars were sold in 1997, and...

WHAT: It's costly, it's annoying and a lot of it is fraudulent. How much is there? How bad is it? What can we do about it? The FTC and the Center for Democracy and Technology offer some answers, some...

Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application for approval of a transaction from the following: The FTC has...

The Federal Trade Commission has voted to amend the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) premerger notification rules that require the parties to certain mergers or acquisitions to file reports with the FTC and...

The Federal Trade Commission has amended its Rules of Practice to incorporate the provisions of the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA) concerning congressional review...

Travel Bahamas Tours, Inc., of Deerfield Beach and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; and company president Richard A. Raskin, of Boynton Beach, Florida, and Dallas, Texas, have agreed to settle Federal...