Press Releases

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...

The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a proposed consent order that would allow the $16 billion merger of El Paso Energy Corporation ("El Paso") and the Coastal Corporation ("Coastal"), while...

Darryl Smith, the principal of American Consumer Membership Services, Inc. (ACMS), has agreed to a permanent ban from engaging in any telemarketing, or in the advertising, promotion, marketing, or...

The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Defense will create the first online system designed specifically to identify and collect...

An investment trading software company that used theoretical past earnings charts to sell a high-priced software program has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that its claims were...

Under the terms of a proposed consent agreement reached with the Federal Trade Commission and announced today, Sharp Electronics Corp. ("Sharp"), one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers...

On February 1, 2001, significant changes will take effect regarding the filing requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (15 U.S.C. 18a), which requires certain...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a consent agreement with the following: R.S. of Houston Workshop, Ronald J. Schoemmell and Valdimar Thorkelsson. The Commission vote to...

Productive Marketing, Inc., based in Santa Barbara, California, and its principals, Matthew B. Hyman, Zachary A. Hyman, and Joshua Hyman, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that...

Two manufacturers of Food and Drug Administration unapproved rapid HIV tests have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that, in some instances, their tests did not accurately detect the presence...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Electronic Retailing Association (ERA) will present a one-day, case-driven seminar for Internet retailers, marketers and suppliers on applying offline rules and...

Through a consent agreement reached with the Federal Trade Commission and announced today, Winn-Dixie Stores, Inc. ("Winn-Dixie") would be allowed to acquire 68 supermarkets and other assets from the...

The Commission has authorized staff of the Bureau of Economics and of Policy Planning to submit an advocacy comment to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) regarding its proposal to impose mandatory...

Advertising and promotional expenditures for smokeless tobacco products reached $170.2 million in 1999, according to a biennial Federal Trade Commission Report to Congress. The report shows that...

Following a public comment period, the Commission has made final a modified consent agreement with the following: Boeing Co./Hughes Electronics. The modified consent agreement expands the definition...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that as part of "Project Mailbox IV," the FTC and its federal and state law enforcement partners brought hundreds of actions in the past year against scam...

Laser Express of Tennessee, Limited., Inc., based in Nashville, and its owner, Jeff Richfield, have agreed to pay $374,000 in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they...

The Black and Decker Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary, Kwikset Corporation, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they misrepresented that certain of Kwikset's...