Commission Actions

The Federal Trade Commission has new tips to help people deal with email and social networking hacks, whether it’s lessening the chances of a hack in the first place, or recovering from a hack once it...

La Comisión Federal de Comercio, (FTC, por su sigla en inglés), tiene nuevas recomendaciones para ayudar a la gente a lidiar con cuentas de emails y redes sociales que han sido pirateadas ( hacked )...

Under a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, a telemarketer who allegedly defrauded consumers with false promises of debt relief and charged them without their consent is banned from selling...

At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court has halted a debt collection operation that allegedly extorted payments from consumers by using false threats of lawsuits and...

Russell and Catherine Dalbey – who allegedly defrauded consumers with promises of making big bucks by brokering seller-financed promissory notes – have settled with the Federal Trade Commission and...

The Federal Trade Commission testified before a Senate subcommittee today on the topic of “patent hold-up” and explained how competition is affected when the owners of critical, standard-essential...

Un juez federal falló a favor de la Comisión Federal de Comercio (FTC, por su sigla en inglés) en su caso contra una operación en internet que presuntamente efectuó débitos a las cuentas bancarias de...

A federal judge has found in favor of the Federal Trade Commission in its case against an online operation that illegally debited consumers’ bank accounts when they visited the defendants’ websites...

The Federal Trade Commission has charged an operation that sells credit and debit card payment processing services to small businesses with violating federal law. The defendants allegedly made false...