Press Releases

The Federal Trade Commission , the Internal Revenue Service, and state regulators today issued a consumer alert for those seeking assistance from tax-exempt credit counseling organizations. Paying...

The Commission has authorized the staff to file comments with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) concerning trans fatty acids in nutrition labeling, consumer research to consider nutrient...

Commission approval of proposed asset sale: The Commission has approved the proposed sale of assets by J.W. Childs (Childs), related to the 2001 purchase of Ralston Purina Company by Nestlé S.A....

The Federal Trade Commission and members of the International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN) have announced several initiatives to combat cross-border fraud. The network conducted...

The Federal Trade Commission and Ireland’s Office of the Director of Consumer Affairs (ODCA) today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to facilitate enhanced law...

The Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection will host a joint media availability with a representative of the U.S. State Department on Thursday, October 9, 2003 at 2...

With the opening day of the U.S. State Department’s annual Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery just weeks away, the Federal Trade Commission today cracked down on the operators of eight Internet Web sites who...

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a press conference to announce the latest developments regarding the National Do Not Call Registry. WHO: Timothy J. Muris, Chairman Federal Trade Commission...

La Comisión Federal de Comercio (Federal Trade Commission, FTC) realizará una conferencia de prensa para anunciar los últimos acontecimientos relacionados al Registro Nacional No Llame (Do Not Call...

I am heartened that the court of appeals has granted our request to stay the order of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado enjoining enforcement of the FTC's Do-Not-Call Rule. This is...

Texas-based defendants who engaged in a scam in which they e-mailed consumers promising to provide them with a credit card agreed to pay $815,000 in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission...

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

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris today announced that M. Sean Royall, who has served as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition since June 2001, will be leaving the FTC...

Telebrands Corp., TV Savings LLC, and their owner, Ajit Khubani, have been charged by the Federal Trade Commission with making the same type of false claims in the marketing and sale of their "Ab...

Yesterday, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado held that a Do Not Call registry allowing consumers to avoid receiving commercial telemarketing calls is unconstitutional...

Today, the Federal Trade Commission filed an appeal of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado order that enjoins the FTC from enforcing the provisions of the Telemarketing Sales...

Operators that used deceptive spam and a Web site to recruit consumers into an illegal chain letter scheme have agreed to settle FTC charges that their scam violated federal laws. The settlement bars...

Kyle Kimoto, the chief architect of an illicit international telemarketing network, has agreed to the terms of a federal court order to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that his telemarketing...

Today, the Congress has once again ratified the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to establish a National Do Not Call Registry. I always have believed that the FTC had clear authority to...

Late last year, the Federal Trade Commission issued rules creating the National Do Not Call Registry under the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act. On February 13, 2003, the...