The Federal Trade Commission charged a South Carolina resident using various company names with deceptively marketing his purported envelope stuffing employment opportunities to consumers over the...

A Houston-based defendant that defrauded thousands of consumers nationwide through an advance-fee loan scheme has settled charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC announced today a...

A federal district court has temporarily halted the business practices of a Toronto-based company charged by the Federal Trade Commission with promising consumers a major credit card, and charging an...

Canadian telemarketers whose companies targeted elderly U.S. citizens in a lottery scam have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the schemes violated federal laws. The settlement...

The Federal Trade Commission filed suit today against the marketers of the widely advertised product, Body Solutions Evening Weight Loss Formula (Evening Formula). The FTC charged Mark Nutritionals...

Seminar promoter Wade Cook has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that he and his companies violated the terms of a federal district court order barring unsubstantiated earnings claims...

Former Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky has been named this year's recipient of the Miles W. Kirkpatrick Award. Current FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris called Pitofsky "one of the...

What: Press Availability Where: Federal Trade Commission Room 481 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. The room will open at 1:00 to allow for camera set-up. Reporters unable to attend can...

Operators that allegedly used deceptive spam messages and appeals to patriotism to sell Web addresses that don't work, including ".usa," have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that the...

The Federal Trade Commission today entered into a proposed consent order with the National Academy of Arbitrators (NAA), which would require the group to remove restrictions on truthful advertising...

The Commission has approved a petition from Aventis S.A. (Aventis), the successor company to Hoechst AG and Rhone-Poulenc S.A. (RP) (the respondents), to reopen and modify a final consent order...

The Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Enforcement announced today that it recently conducted a surf of 63 Internet retailers offering top-selling holiday items. The purpose of the "HolidaySmarts2...

Application for approval of proposed divestiture: The Commission has received an application from Solvay S.A. (Solvay) for FTC approval of a proposed divestiture to Dyneon LLC. The divestiture is...

The Federal Trade Commission announced today that the federal district court for the Southern District of New York has approved an agreement between the Commission and a major billing aggregator and...

The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice concerning the FTC's Textile Fiber Products Identification Act (Textile Act) and the Wool Products Labeling Act (Wool Act)...

The Commission has approved four applications from America Online/Time Warner, Inc. (AOLTW) requesting approval of non-affiliated Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and alternative cable broadband...

Staff of the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Economics and General Counsel's Office of Policy Studies on November 15, 2002, provided the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) with comments...

Company Would be Required to Divest Four Amigo Stores to Supermercados Maximo, Inc. Under the terms of a proposed consent order accepted for public comment by the Federal Trade Commission and...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged companies that used false earnings claims and other deceptive representations to sell vending machine business opportunities with violating federal law. A...

Blue Stuff, Inc., McClung Advertising, Inc., and their president, Jack McClung, have agreed to pay $3 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they made unsubstantiated claims that Blue...