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FTC Order Requires Gennex Media LLC and Its Owner to Pay $146,249, and Stop Making Deceptive ‘Made in USA’ Claims
FTC Issues Orders to Five E-Cigarette Manufacturers’ Seeking Information on 2019 and 2020 Sales, Advertising, and Promotional Methods
Devumi, LLC
On October 21, 2019, the FTC announced it had halted the deceptive online marketing tactics of two companies and their principals, the first of which allegedly sold fake indicators of social media influence, and the second of which allegedly used fake product reviews posted by its employees on a well-known retail website. In the first case, Devumi, LLC and its owner and CEO, German Calas, Jr., agreed to settle the FTC’s first-ever complaint challenging the sale of fake indicators of social media influence. In the second case, cosmetics firm Sunday Riley Modern Skincare, LLC and its CEO agreed to settle an FTC complaint charging them with misleading consumers by posting fake reviews of the company’s products on a major retailer’s website, at the CEO’s direction, and by failing to disclose that the reviewers were company employees. The court entered the final order on October 22, 2019.
FTC Names Two Additional Defendants in Its Case Against Zurixx Real Estate Investment Training Scheme
FTC to Hold Virtual Workshop Exploring Digital “Dark Patterns”
National Consumer Protection Week 2021 Begins Sunday, February 28
FTC Report Cites Benefits of International Cooperation On Antitrust and Consumer Protection Enforcement
FTC Approves Final Order Stopping the Manufacturer of Superglues, and Company President, from Marketing Products with Misleading ‘Made in USA’ Claims
FTC Acts to Ban Payday Lender From Industry, Forgive Illegal Debt
Four Defendants Settle with the FTC for Their Alleged Role in Credit Card Laundering Scheme
FTC Sends More than $1.7 Million in Refunds to People who Lost Money to Student Loan Debt Relief Scam
New FTC Data Show Massive Increase in Romance Scams, $304M in Losses
Publisher Will Pay More Than $2 Million to Settle FTC Charges That It Targeted Seniors with Phony Diabetes Cure and Money Making Schemes
FTC Gives Final Approval to Settlement with Emergency Travel Services Provider Related to Allegations It Failed to Secure Sensitive Data
SkyMed International, Inc., In the Matter of
SkyMed must put in place a comprehensive information security program as part of a settlement with the FTC over allegations the company failed to take reasonable steps to secure sensitive consumer information such as health records.
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