A product you bought through an Internet auction months ago still hasn't been delivered. A newspaper ad offers "Guaranteed Loans," but requires a fee up front. A fabulous prize offer comes in the mail...

OneSource Worldwide Network, Inc., operating in Dallas, Texas, and its president, James Fobair, have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they made false and unsubstantiated advertising...

The Federal Trade Commission has extended the date by which comments must be submitted concerning the review of its Funeral Rule, 16 CFR Part 453. The Commission will publish a notice shortly in the...

The Premerger Notification Office (PNO) of the Federal Trade Commission, with the concurrence of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice have amended Formal Interpretation 15 of the Hart...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a proposed settlement agreement with Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc. and Star Markets, Inc. The agreement would resolve FTC charges that the proposed acquisition...

In remarks before the National Association of Attorneys General 1999 Summer Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky outlined his agency's study on the...

GOOD MORNING, As of December 1998 -- 22.3 million adults in this country sought health and medical information online. Nearly 70 percent of those searching for health information on the Web, did so...

Internet health fraud is the target of a comprehensive law enforcement and consumer education campaign announced today by the Federal Trade Commission at a press conference in Washington, D.C. The...

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a public workshop on July 20, 1999, to explore appropriate methods to obtain parental consent in conjunction with the FTC's rulemaking on the Children's Online...

Continental Gown Cleaning Service, Inc., a New York-based drycleaning operation, four related drycleaning companies operating at the same address, and the two individuals who controlled them, have...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky today told the House Judiciary Committee that a proposed antitrust exemption to allow physicians and other health care professionals to engage in...

Albertson's, Inc. and American Stores Company have agreed to sell 144 supermarkets and five supermarket sites in order to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that Albertston's proposed...

The Federal Trade Commission will announce "Operation Cure.All," a comprehensive law enforcement and consumer education campaign to combat deceptive health claims on the Internet at a press conference...

In a crackdown on operations that targeted hundreds of thousands of small businesses, "cramming" charges onto their telephone bills for services that were supposed to be free, the Federal Trade...

What: Press conference to announce law enforcement initiative and public/private partnership to attack scams that target small businesses with the lure of "free" Internet services -- then cram...

Tiger Direct, Inc., a large mail order seller of computer products, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it made false and misleading statements in its ads and promotional...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Coupon Information Center (CIC) today announced the results of a Coupon Internet "Surf Day." Fifty-one Internet advertisements were identified as potentially...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following: Federal Register Notices : Guides for the Jewelry, Precious Metals and Pewter Industries The Commission has published a Federal Register...

In a deal that would provide more than $39 million in redress for U.S. consumers, American TelNet (ATN), one of the largest providers of "audiotext" services -- audio entertainment services offered...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of Commerce William M. Daley, in introductory remarks today at the Federal Trade Commission's Workshop on Consumer Protection in the Global Marketplace, urged the...