In July 2000, the Federal Trade Commission filed charges against Global Network Enterprises, Inc. and Republic Enterprises, Inc., based in Costa Mesa, California, and individual defendants Cecilia M...

A cross-border lottery scam that targeted elderly U.S. consumers has been barred from selling tickets in the United States and from violating federal laws that bar deceptive sales practices. The court...

Anticipating upcoming Presidents' Day auto sales, staff of the Federal Trade Commission inspected 25 used car dealers throughout New York City's Borough of Queens last week to determine whether they...

A Ronan, Montana-based manufacturer of power tool accessories has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it misrepresented that certain of its products are made in the United States...

Ameritel Payphone Distributors, Inc., based in Miami, Florida, and its owner, Roy Barnett Goodman, targeted by the Federal Trade Commission as part of a nationwide crackdown on fraudulent business...

Federal Data Service, Inc. (FDS), a Margate, Florida company, and its principals, Stephen Tate, Spencer Golden and Dawn Johnson will be permanently banned from promoting or selling employment services...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted for public comment a proposed consent order that would remedy the likely anticompetitive effects of the proposed merger of The Dow Chemical Company ("Dow")...

Three individuals and two companies named in a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit filed in 1999 as part of "Operation Misprint" have agreed to settle charges that they engaged in a bogus office and...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent order regarding the following: El Paso Energy Corporation and PG&E Corporation. The Commission vote to finalize the consent...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a public workshop on March 13, 2001 to explore how businesses merge and exchange detailed consumer information and how such information is used commercially...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that the Children's Advertising Review Unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus (CARU), the children's arm of the advertising industry's self...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit in U. S. District Court seeking to halt false and misleading advertising for zMax auto additives and has asked the court to order refunds to consumers who...

The Federal Trade Commission today accepted a final consent agreement with Entergy Corporation ("Entergy") and Entergy-Koch, LP ("EKLP"), a limited partnership owned equally by Entergy and Koch...

The staff of the Federal Trade Commission's Division of Financial Practices announced today the beginning of "Operation Detect Pretext," an effort to protect consumers from firms that obtain their...

Not all loans or lenders are created equal. As part of this year's National Consumer Protection Week (February 5-10, 2001) campaign to help consumers avoid abusive lending practices, the Federal Trade...

The Commission has determined to close an investigation related to the following matter: SmithKline Beecham/Glaxo Wellcome. Upon acceptance for public comment of the consent agreement reached with the...

Home Professions, Inc., Telesalescenter.Com., and their owner, Michael Petok, charged by the Federal Trade Commission as part of a nationwide crackdown on fraudulent business opportunities, have...

Jodie Bernstein, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, announced that from the FTC's perspective, the 2000 online holiday shopping season seems to have gone more...

Starting today, consumers, reporters, students, researchers, law enforcers and others will be able to tap into a new website for a wealth of statistics about fraud, fraud on the Internet, and identity...

Promoters of a pyramid scheme that disguised itself as a legitimate multi-level marketing business have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the scheme violated federal law. The...