The Federal Trade Commission recommends changes to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) to enhance consumer protection and combat identity theft. In presenting its views before the House Committee on...

The Federal Trade Commission today issued an administrative complaint against California Pacific Medical Group, Inc., doing business as Brown & Toland, a San Francisco, California physicians'...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed a complaint in U.S. district court charging Electronic Financial Group, Inc. (EFG) and its principals with providing assistance to fraudulent telemarketers...

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will host a joint press conference to announce their most recent efforts to crack down on misleading claims about the efficacy of...

Commission authorization of the staff to file amended complaint: The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amended complaint in the case currently pending against Patrick Cella, et al., CV-03...

The Federal Trade Commission told Congress today that there is no simple solution to solve the problem of spam. Speaking before the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Subcommittees on Commerce...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operators of an Internet-based business opportunity that promised substantial income to participants in an Internet shopping mall network with operating an...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit in U.S. District Court to shut down the operation of a cross-border con artist who targeted elderly U.S. citizens in a bogus foreign lottery scheme. The...

A Federal Trade Commission staff report released today concludes that e-commerce offers consumers lower prices and more choices in the wine market, and that states could expand e-commerce by...

Merchant Payment Solutions (MPS) and its principal, Steven Todd Knight, have agreed to settle charges that they violated federal laws by operating and promoting a fraudulent business opportunity. In...

A spammer who ran a bogus envelope-stuffing work-at-home scheme, promising “cash for stuffing” but delivering nothing, will pay more than $200,000 for consumer redress and could face nearly five years...

A U.S. District Court judge has halted the deceptive claims of an operation that promised one fee, turn-key get-rich-quick Internet home-business opportunities, but tacked on requirements that cost...

Consumers continue to add their telephone numbers to the National Do Not Call Registry at a vigorous pace, favoring online registrations to telephone registrations 88 percent to12 percent. As of 10:30...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced three enforcement actions against direct marketers of weight-loss products containing ephedra. The two settlements and one complaint, filed in U.S...

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a press availability on Tuesday July 1, 2003, at 10:00 a.m. EST to announce three federal law enforcement actions against direct marketers of weight loss...

Since the Do Not Call Registry was launched on Friday, June 27, consumers have registered more than 10 million telephone numbers. “Consumer response has been enthusiastic,” commented Federal Trade...

The opening of the National Do Not Call Registry, a free service of the federal government developed to give consumers a choice about getting telemarketing calls at home, was announced this morning by...

In an initial decision announced today, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) D. Michael Chappell upheld administrative complaint allegations that the February 2001 acquisition by Chicago Bridge & Iron...

Federal Trade Commission officials worked with senior antitrust officials from roughly 50 jurisdictions to advance reforms in multijurisdictional merger review to promote competition law enforcement...

In an address to the Class Action Litigation Summit in Washington, DC today, Commissioner Thomas B. Leary pledged that the Federal Trade Commission would continue to keep a watchful eye on class...