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A federal judge has granted the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission’s request for a default judgment against a software developer who helped scammers infect millions of computers with destructive and intrusive...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission will host a workshop on April 24, 2008, to examine recent trends related to health care delivery. This workshop will bring together representatives of physician and...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission is cautioning consumers looking forward to rebate checks from the government that they may be targets of scammers out to steal their identity. The agency has issued an...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced its decision to challenge the conduct by two Connecticut chiropractic associations and one of their attorneys to implement a collective refusal to deal...

Willoughby Farr, the owner of three companies that billed more than $30 million in bogus collect call charges to millions of consumers throughout the country, has been banned from all billing on local...

A student loan company has agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that it failed to provide reasonable and appropriate security for consumers’ sensitive personal information in violation of...

An X-rated Web operation that paid affiliates who used illegal e-mail to drive customers to its Web sites will pay a $413,000 civil penalty under a settlement reached with the FTC and the Department...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has approved the publication of a Â鶹´«Ã½ Register notice announcing the rules and guide that it will review in 2008 under its routine regulatory review process. As...

A group of business opportunity marketers who told consumers they could make substantial income processing medical claims from home have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that they...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has launched the 10th annual National Consumer Protection Week, March 2 – 8, 2008, in collaboration with federal, state, and local agencies and national consumer advocacy...

As part of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission’s intensified efforts to protect consumers from mortgage foreclosure rescue scams, the agency has filed two lawsuits charging six individuals and their...

Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras today announced her decision to leave the FTC in late March. Majoras was appointed by President George W. Bush and sworn into office on August...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today presented testimony before the U.S. House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government, discussing how the Commission...

In an ongoing effort to crack down on businesses that prey upon homeowners facing foreclosure, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has charged six businesses and three individuals with violating the Home...

At the request of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, Judge Charles A. Pannell, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division, has issued an order finding that...

The marketers of the 7 Day Miracle Cleanse Program, a purported herbal colon-cleansing program, have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that they falsely claimed that their program...

Three payday lenders have agreed to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission charges that their Internet advertising stated the cost of loans without disclosing annual percentage rate information that federal...

Commission approval of final consent order: Following a public comment period, the Commission has approved the issuance of a final consent order in the matter of Herbs Nutrition Corporation, et al...

Two companies that offer to finance the sale of personal computers to consumers with poor credit ratings have agreed to pay up to $5 million for consumer redress to settle Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission...

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission today announced the second in a series of public workshops being held as part of the agency’s regulatory review of the “Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing...