A New England-based vocational school offering courses in truck driving has agreed to disclose its job placement and licensing-test pass rates to prospective students as part of a settlement of...

Mazda Motor of America of Irvine, California, has agreed to pay a total of $5.25 million for alleged violations of a Federal Trade Commission order and state orders related to lease advertising for...

The Federal Trade Commission has reached a proposed settlement with Ceridian Corporation and its subsidiary Comdata Holdings Corporation, the nation's largest provider of commercial credit cards known...

Amended Complaints: In the case of FTC v. ASQ, Inc., dba Resort World et al., the Commission voted to name Allan H. Abolafia as an additional defendant. The Commission vote to amend the complaint was...

The Federal Trade Commission made public today the results of "tar," nicotine and carbon monoxide testing for 1,262 varieties of domestic cigarettes sold in 1996 and 1,252 varieties sold in 1997. The...

Formal Interpretation of the Premerger Notification Rules: Through Formal Interpretation 16 (16 CFR § 803.30) of the Commission's Premerger Notification Rules, which appears in today's Federal...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announce that they will convene a joint public forum on November 4, 1999, to address the advertising and marketing of...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the appointment of Barbara Anthony, a former top aide in the office of the Massachusetts Attorney General, as Director of its Northeast Region office. The...

Photo Vend International, based in Hollywood, Florida, has agreed to pay a $11,000 civil penalty to resolve Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the FTC's Franchise Rule in connection...

Thank you for being here, this morning. Today we're announcing the FTC's 100th case targeting Internet scams, and I think of all 100 cases, this one may be the most pernicious we've seen. Before we...

In its 100th law enforcement action targeting deception on the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission has asked a U.S. District Court Judge to halt a Internet scam that clones everyday Web sites and...

Millions Of Legitimate Web Pages and Innocent Web Surfers, Including Children, Affected: Agency To Announce New High-Tech Internet Lab What: Press Conference to Announce FTC's 100th Internet Case and...

Consent Agreements Given Final Approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with the following entity: Unum Corporation (Provident Companies). The...

A Texas-based business opportunity operator has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that he made misleading earnings claims and used deceptive sales tactics to sell distributorships for...

Approval of Omnibus Compulsory Process Resolution: To ensure that its staff has the tools necessary to combat fraud and deception on the Internet, the Federal Trade Commission today announced that it...

The Federal Trade Commission's press conference to announce a new Internet scam and a new high-tech Internet lab previously scheduled for Thursday, September 16 at 11:30 a.m., will now be held on...

In the latest of a series of Federal Trade Commission cases alleging that ad claims for motor oil and fuel additives were deceptive, Castrol North America Inc., the marketer of gas additive Castrol...

A manufacturer of well-known home and personal care products has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it did not have adequate substantiation for advertising claims for its Vaseline®...

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce will hold a public workshop on November 8, 1999, on "online profiling," the practice of aggregating information about consumers'...

In an effort to help consumers protect themselves against fraudulent credit card protection offers, the Federal Trade Commission today filed complaints against two Arizona-based companies and...