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Operators of Postal Jobs Scheme Banned from Selling Employment Services

Date

July 18, 2013

Under settlement orders with the Federal Trade Commission announced today, the operators of an alleged federal jobs scam have been banned from selling employment products or services. Last year, as...

Rules

Business Opportunity Rule

Rule Updated Date

December 8, 2012

The Business Opportunity Rule requires business opportunity sellers to give prospective buyers specific information to help them evaluate a business opportunity, thus ensuring that the prospective...

Text of Rule

Press Release

FTC Warns of Gulf Oil Spill Job Scams

Date

July 2, 2010

Scammers who prey on people eager for work have turned their attention to the Gulf oil spill. Bogus ads for oil spill clean-up jobs in the Gulf are appearing in newspapers, online, and in e-mail...

Press Release

FTC Cracks Down on Con Artists Who Target Jobless Americans

Date

February 17, 2010

The Federal Trade Commission today announced a new crackdown on con artists who are preying on unemployed Americans with job-placement and work-at-home scams, promoting empty promises that they can...

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Event

Business Opportunity Rule Workshop

June 1, 2009 | 12:00AM

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a day-long public workshop on June 1, 2009 in Washington, DC, to explore proposed changes to the FTC’s Business Opportunity Rule. The workshop, which is free and...

Business Blog

Facts about fraud from the FTC – and what it means for your business

Date

February 9, 2024

The FTC just issued its 2023 Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book jam-packed with facts about the kind of scams consumers have reported to us. Has the reported dollar amount lost to fraud gone up or...

Business Blog

A job scam that college students – and your HR team – need to know about

Date

December 27, 2023

If you’ll be seeing college-age relatives over the holidays, warn them about a variation on the “job interview” scam that students looking for summer or permanent employment have reported to us. And...

Business Blog

Influence peddling? Bogus “brand ambassador managers” scam prospective influencers

Date

October 17, 2023

We’ve warned professionals about online job scams involving phony “recruiters” who falsely claim to represent big-name businesses. Employment impersonators are still at it, but this time they’re...

Business Blog

Job scammers go even lower in the way they “hire”

Date

August 3, 2023

You’ve heard about scammers impersonating government agencies, global retailers, and even members of your family. The latest variation on the scheme targets business professionals, luring them in with...

Business Blog

Can your staff spot the five most common text message scams?

Date

June 8, 2023

According to reports in the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel database, text message scams took consumers for $330 million in 2022. The latest Consumer Protection Data Spotlight focuses on this form of fraud...

Business Blog

Chatbots, deepfakes, and voice clones: AI deception for sale

Date

March 20, 2023

You may have heard of simulation theory, the notion that nothing is real and we’re all part of a giant computer program. Let’s assume at least for the length of this blog post that this notion is...

Business Blog

Taking the “ploy” out of employment scams

Date

January 25, 2023

The workplace is in transition, with people considering career changes or dealing with layoffs. But as the FTC has warned for years, scammers find a way to exploit every trend – and this time they...

Business Blog

Facing the facts about fraud: It may not be the face you think

Date

December 8, 2022

Ask someone to picture the typical person who has experienced a scam and they may think of an older consumer taken in by a fast-talking fraudster . Regardless of the image they create, the results of...

Business Blog

Looking for a new job or considering a business opportunity? Spot signs of a possible scam.

Date

May 9, 2022

Scammers often target job seekers and prospective entrepreneurs with bogus employment and money-making offers. We know that because the FTC has investigated and stopped many of them . But scammers are...

Business Blog

Back to business #4: Back-to-work basics for job seekers

Date

June 17, 2021

We’ll leave it to the economists to crunch the employment numbers. We’re just happy to see more Help Wanted signs in the windows of Main Street retailers. That’s good news for Americans affected by...

Business Blog

Unemployment benefits fraud puts workers at risk of more ID theft

Date

June 3, 2020

A large-scale scam involving phony unemployment benefits claims has been making headlines. Criminals, possibly based overseas, are filing claims for benefits, using the names and personal information...

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