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National Consumer Protection Week

March 2, 2014 | 12:00AM - March 8, 2014 | 12:00AM

The Federal Trade Commission, in collaboration with 74 federal, state and local agencies, consumer groups, and national organizations, celebrates National Consumer Protection Week, beginning Sunday...

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FTC Testifies Before Congress on Fraud Affecting Military Community

Date

November 20, 2013

The Federal Trade Commission testified before a U.S. Senate Committee regarding the agency’s law enforcement and educational efforts to combat deceptive and unfair practices that impact servicemembers...

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FTC Sues to Stop Massive Sweepstakes Scam

Date

September 23, 2013

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has halted a massive sweepstakes scam that has taken more than $11 million from consumers throughout the United States and dozens of...

May02

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Lottery, Prize, and Sweepstakes Scams and the Role of Money Transfer Services

May 2, 2011 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM

The Federal Trade Commission, in conjunction with the United States Postal Inspection Service, will host a two-day public workshop in Chicago, Illinois to examine what more can be done to protect...

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Court Halts Counterfeit Check and Prize Scam

Date

April 9, 2009

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court has ordered a permanent halt to a lottery and prize-promotion scam that used counterfeit cashier’s checks and false promises of large...

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Sweepstakes Promoters Will Pay $1.4 Million To Settle FTC Charges

Date

April 23, 2007

A sweepstakes operation that enticed consumers to send money in order to win cash prizes has agreed to pay almost $1.4 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal laws...

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Bad Bonds: FTC Charges Canadian Defendant with Defrauding Elderly U.S. Consumers with Promises of Cash Winnings

Date

October 27, 2005

The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operator of a Vancouver, Canada-based telemarketing operation with targeting elderly U.S. consumers in connection with offering nonexistent foreign bonds...

Press Release

Cross-Border Law Enforcement Yields $1.5 Million in Redress for U.S. Consumers

Date

November 18, 2004

Cross-border cooperation between Canadian and U.S. law enforcers will provide approximately $1.5 million in redress for victims of four international lottery scams operated by telemarketers based in...

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Cross-Border Lottery-Bond Scheme Alleged to Violate U.S. Laws; Targets U.S. Citizens

Date

January 21, 2000

A Canadian telemarketing company targeting U.S. citizens in a lottery scheme has been temporarily shut down by the Federal Trade Commission and Canadian law enforcement officials. According to the FTC...

Press Release

FTC Halts Credit Card Laundering Operation: Millions Lost to Cross Border Lottery Fraud

Date

April 30, 1997

In a crack down on cross border fraud, the Federal Trade Commission has obtained a court order temporarily halting a credit card laundering service that allowed Canadian telemarketers to bilk U.S...

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

FTC crunches the 2022 numbers. See where scammers continue to crunch consumers.

Date

February 23, 2023

There are prime numbers, irrational numbers, and Fibonacci’s numbers – but from a consumer protection perspective, no number is quite as sobering as the dollar amount that people reported losing to...

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

New interactive feature shows there’s no generation gap for scams

Date

October 28, 2019

When it comes to fraud, there’s no such thing as a generation gap. According to reports in the FTC’s Consumer Sentinel database, fraud affects every generation. But that’s only half the story. What...

Business Blog

Scams and the older consumer: Some surprising findings

Date

October 23, 2019

There are perceptions some people seem to have about older consumers – and then there’s the data we see in fraud reports from consumers of that age group. Protecting Older Consumers 2018-2019: A...

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