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FTC Returns Money to Consumers Harmed in Alleged Payday Loan Scheme
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The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 72,836 checks totaling more than $2.9 million to people who lost money to an alleged scheme that trapped them into payday loans they never authorized or whose...
FTC Announces Regulatory Review Schedule
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As part of the Federal Trade Commission’s systematic review of all current FTC rules and guides, the agency is announcing a revised regulatory review schedule for 2018. To ensure that its rules and...
FTC Returns Money to Consumers Harmed by Debt Relief Scheme
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The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 5,745 checks totaling more than $480,000 to people who lost money to a debt relief scheme that misled its customers and charged illegal upfront fees. United...
FTC Submits Annual Budget Request, Performance Plan and Performance Report to Congress
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The Federal Trade Commission submitted to Congress its Fiscal Year 2019 budget request, in support of the President’s FY 2019 budget for the federal government. The budget request also includes the FY...
FTC Seeks Public Comments on Nursery Guides
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The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comments on its Guides for the Nursery Industry (Nursery Guides) as part of its systematic review of all current FTC rules and guides. Issued in 1979...
FTC Obtains Court Order Halting Business Coaching Scheme
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At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has temporarily halted an operation that took more than $14 million from consumers seeking to start their own online business. The operation...
FTC Approves Updates to Energy Labeling Rule
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The Federal Trade Commission has amended its Energy Labeling Rule by updating comparability range and cost information for several products, including dishwashers, furnaces, pool heaters and room air...
FTC Charges Ameritech and Brandon Frere with Deceiving Consumers
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged a student loan debt relief operation with bilking more than $28 million from thousands of consumers throughout the country by falsely promising that consumers’...
FTC Releases Agenda for PrivacyCon 2018
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The Federal Trade Commission released the final agenda for PrivacyCon 2018, an event that will be held on February 28, 2018, and will highlight research that explores the privacy and security...
Advertising Firm Barred from Assisting in the Marketing and Sale of Weight-Loss Supplements Deceptively Pitched to Consumers
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Marketing Architects, Inc. (MAI), an advertising agency that created and disseminated allegedly deceptive radio ads for weight-loss products marketed by its client, Direct Alternatives, has agreed to...
Online Talent Search Company Settles FTC Allegations it Collected Children’s Information without Consent and Misled Consumers
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A web-based talent search company has agreed to pay $235,000 in civil penalties to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it failed to obtain parental consent before collecting personal...
FTC Staff Perspective Examines Key Financial Issues That Affect Military Consumers
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A new Staff Perspective, a paper by the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, examines financial issues that can affect military consumers, including servicemembers, veterans, and...
FTC Warns Consumers About Online Dating Scams
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Download entire graphic at high resolution If an online love interest asks you for money, it’s probably a scam. The Federal Trade Commission receives thousands of reports each year about romance...
FTC Provides Comment to FCC Encouraging Providers of Call-Blocking Services to Take Steps to Avoid Blocking Wanted Calls
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In a comment provided to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), staff of the Federal Trade Commission responded to the FCC’s request for input on potential mechanisms to address erroneously...
FTC Staff Comment Before the Federal Communications Commission Regarding Advanced Methods to Target and Eliminate Unlawful Robocalls
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Matter Number
P034412
Docket Number
FCC 17-151
FTC to Provide Refunds to Victims of Tech Support Scam
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The Federal Trade Commission is mailing refund checks totaling more than $668,000 to victims of a tech support scam that claimed to be associated with major tech companies to trick people into buying...
Tech Support Operators Agree to Settle Charges by FTC and the State of Ohio
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The operators of a computer tech support scam are permanently banned from the tech support business as part of a settlement to resolve charges by the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Ohio...
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