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The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission is sending claim forms to consumers who may have been misled by deceptive bait-and-switch advertising by Ohio-based LCA-Vision, doing business as LasikPlus and Joffe...

The staff of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has provided the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) an annual summary of its enforcement and related activities on the Equal Credit Opportunity Act...

A federal court has issued an order banning the operators of the Home Matters USA mortgage relief scam from the telemarketing and debt relief businesses and requiring them to turn over $19 million as...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking that would prohibit the impersonation of individuals. The proposed rule changes would extend...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced a proposed settlement that would ban California-based Precision Patient Outcomes, Inc. (PPO) and the company’s CEO Margrett Priest Lewis from claiming that...

As a result of a Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission lawsuit, a federal court has entered a judgment requiring merchant cash advance operator Jonathan Braun to pay $20.3 million in monetary relief and civil...

Today the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) jointly issued a Request for Information to understand how the practices of two types of...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission will host a virtual workshop, Private Capital, Public Impact: An FTC Workshop on Private Equity in Health Care, on March 5, 2024, to examine the role of private equity...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has obtained a $195 million judgment against Simple Health Plans LLC and its CEO Steven J. Dorfman over charges they duped consumers into signing up for sham health care...

Newly released Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission data show that consumers reported losing more than $10 billion to fraud in 2023, marking the first time that fraud losses have reached that benchmark. This...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission is sending more than $610,000 in refunds to consumers who lost money to a tech support scam facilitated by the payment processing company Nexway. According to the FTC’s...

On January 16, 2024, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission published a notice in the Â鶹´«Ã½ Register containing the initial and final notice of an informal hearing on February 13, 2024, regarding the Proposed...

A group of student loan debt relief scammers will be permanently banned from the debt relief industry and is required to turn over their assets as part of a settlement with the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade...

Today the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission issued a comment in response to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) request for information on its Draft Interagency Guidance Framework for...

South Carolina-based Blackbaud Inc. will be required to delete personal data that it doesn’t need to retain as part of a settlement with the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission over charges that the company’s...

In response to the announcement that Amazon and iRobot have terminated their $1.4 billion merger agreement, Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission Associate Director for Merger Analysis Nathan Soderstrom issued the...

A federal district court has entered final orders against a telemarketing company and its owners, who made millions of illegal, unsolicited calls to people that were registered on the Do Not Call...

Continuing its rigorous enforcement of the nation’s telemarketing and robocall laws, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission over the past year expanded its efforts to stop illegal calls originating overseas...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has extended by 60 days the deadline for it to determine whether to approve an application from the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and others for a new...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has proposed a number of changes and additions to the rules governing its oversight of the Horseracing Safety and Integrity Authority. The changes and additions are...