The Federal Trade Commission today released its annual report detailing consumer complaints about identity theft and listing the top 10 categories of fraud-related complaints filed with the FTC in...

Application for approval of proposed divestiture: The Commission has received a petition for approval of proposed divestiture from Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (Enterprise) and Dan L. Duncan...

Commission comments on GAO report on National Do Not Call Registry: The Commission has submitted comments to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) concerning a new GAO report evaluating the...

The Federal Trade Commission today issued its seventh quarterly announcement summarizing the agency’s continued enforcement against telemarketing fraud and abuse. The quarterly enforcement update...

The Federal Trade Commission and Mexico’s consumer protection agency, the Procuraduría Federal del Consumidor (Profeco), today signed a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote enhanced...

Two companies targeting Spanish-speaking consumers with claims that they could improve consumers’ credit ratings have violated federal laws, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC has...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras announced today that Executive Director Rosemarie Straight will retire after 22 years of service to the agency. Majoras has designated Judith...

emuel Apelar and John Mitchell, the remaining defendants in the case against Jubilee Financial Services and its related debt negotiation companies, are banned from advertising, marketing, or providing...

Publication of Federal Register notices: The Commission, by a vote of 5-0, has authorized publication of a Federal Register notice announcing the revised thresholds for the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR)...

The Federal Trade Commission’s Southwest Region - Dallas and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service will host a press conference on THURSDAY, January 27, 2005, at 12:30 p.m. CST to highlight a one-day...

Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has issued its final regulation to improve required notices in prescreened offers for credit or insurance. The notices, among other...

Officers of a company that directed an international telemarketing network that defrauded hundreds of thousands of consumers through the deceptive telemarketing of bogus advance-fee credit cards are...

Commission approval of proposed license-back agreement: The Commission has approved a petition from BayerCropScience AG (BCS), requesting that the FTC amend the Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA)...

A U.S. District Court Judge has found that the Federal Trade Commission has “demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits” against two of the defendants named in the FTC’s action against two...

Enforma Natural Products, Inc.; Andrew Grey; Twenty-Four Seven, LLC; Michael Ehrman; and Donna DiFerdinando are banned from advertising or marketing weight-loss products, except exercise programs or...

The Federal Trade Commission, the Orange County (California) District Attorney, and the California State Attorney General announced today that they have reached settlements with Body Wise...

The Commission has approved a petition for proposed divestiture received from General Electric Company (GE) and related to the FTC decision and order regarding GE’s acquisition of InVision...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a public conference in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2005, to examine two recent studies focusing on the price effects of mergers and concentration in the...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a proposal to amend the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Rule to make permanent a temporary provision in the Rule allowing operators...

The Federal Trade Commission has postponed the effective date of rule provisions it adopted December 16, 2004, establishing criteria for determining whether the primary purpose of an e-mail message is...