“Check overpayment” scams target consumers selling cars or other valuable items through classified ads or online auction sites. Unsuspecting sellers get stuck with a big loss when scammers pass off...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a public conference in Washington, DC, on January 14, 2005, to examine two recent studies focusing on the price effects of mergers and concentration in the...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that a Florida federal district court has ordered Jack L. Schrold, a defendant under order in a civil case filed by the Department of Justice on behalf of...

Petition to reopen and modify final order: The Commission has received a petition from Aventis S.A. (Aventis), the successor company to Hoechst AG and Rhone-Poulenc S.A. (RP) (the respondents), to...

For the second time in a month, the Federal Trade Commission has put an end to a fraudulent and misleading pitch for work-at-home envelope stuffing business opportunities. Both actions stemmed from...

Beginning January 1, 2005, the Federal Trade Commission’s Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) will require telemarketers to access the National Do Not Call Registry and purge newly-registered numbers from...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced that it will conditionally allow Genzyme Corporation’s (Genzyme) proposed $1 billion acquisition of ILEX Oncology, Inc. (Ilex), provided the companies...

Commission approval of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice regarding the ceiling on allowable charges for certain disclosures under the...

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Antitrust Division today released a joint letter urging the Massachusetts Bar Association to narrow substantially or reject a...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras has appointed John H. Seesel to fill the new position of Associate General Counsel for Energy within the Commission's Office of the General...

The Federal Trade Commission has continued its attack on bogus weight-loss claims by suing a diet patch manufacturer and a retailer that marketed the patch directly to Spanish-speaking consumers. In...

The Federal Trade Commission will host a two-day workshop on consumer protection and competition issues related to peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing on Wednesday, December 15, and Thursday, December 16...

Commission approval of Federal Register notice: The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice regarding the adjustment for inflation of certain FTC civil penalty amounts. As...

A company that sells legal document preparation franchises has agreed to pay a $286,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law by failing to disclose...

Commission approval of amended complaint: The Commission has approved the filing of an amended complaint in the matter of FTC v. FGH International Corporation, et al. The original complaint in this...

The Federal Trade Commission reminds consumers that the National Do Not Call Registry has accepted personal cell phone and home phone number registrations since it opened for consumer registrations in...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a report to Congress containing studies on credit report accuracy and completeness required by the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (FACTA)...

In the face of more than 2,000 consumer complaints, the FTC has asked a U.S. District court to order a halt to the harassing, intimidating, deceptive, and illegal ‘debt collection’ practices of...

Alyon Technologies, Inc. will drop its claim to approximately $17 million in consumer bills to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it engaged in unauthorized billing and collection for adult...

Commission approval of amended complaints: The Commission has approved the filing of an amended complaint in the matter of FTC v. Telephone Protection Agency, Inc, et al. The original complaint in...