Sound familiar? Heard these claims before? If you have ever picked up a newspaper or magazine, or turned on the TV, you probably have seen advertisements that tout these or similar claims. As part of...

The Federal Trade Commission has offered strong support in addition to several suggestions for better clarifying how companies leasing cars and other personal property must disclose important cost...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking comments from the public on whether to repeal its Dry Cell Battery Rule, which prohibits representations that dry cell batteries will not leak. The FTC is...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval for a transaction from the following. The...

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comments on its Hobby Protection Act Rules, which require imitation political items -- such as buttons, posters, coffee mugs and the like -- to be marked...

A federal district court judge has barred New York City-based Micom Corporation and company principal Joseph M. Viggiano from offering any investment that involves a license or permit issued by the...

Atlanta-based Career Information Services, Inc. and CIS Associates, Inc., and their senior officers, have agreed to settle charges that they defrauded consumers seeking federal jobs out of millions of...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application...

Scores of federal, state and local officials and private sector organizations will gather at a conference on "Reinventing Consumer Partnerships" jointly sponsored by Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau...

The Federal Trade Commission has negotiated a settlement with The Mentor Network, Inc. and Parviz Firouzgar, southern California-based marketers of an allegedly fraudulent pyramid scheme promoted...

A new policy hammered out by the National Foundation for Consumer Credit (NFCC) with guidance from staff of the Federal Trade Commission will ensure that financially-troubled consumers who seek help...

Commission action regarding applications for approval: Following a public comment period, the Commission has ruled on an application for approval of a transaction from the following: The FTC has...

The Federal Trade Commission has ordered the International Association of Conference Interpreters (known by its French acronym, AIIC) and its U.S. affiliate members to eliminate Association rules...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a proposed order under which the 11 remaining dealerships in the FTC’s case against the Detroit Automobile Dealers Association (DADA) have agreed to be bound by...

Today we announce "Operation Trip-Up," a law enforcement and consumer education campaign to alert American consumers about the breadth of travel fraud that threatens to take off with their vacation...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed federal court complaints alleging that: A Massachusetts firm offers immigrants "affordable" airfares to visit their homes in India or Africa, but never produces...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced an agreement with Gerber Products Company to resolve agency charges over Gerber’s claim that four out of five pediatricians recommend Gerber baby food. In...

Orlando-based Linc II, Inc. and its president and owner, Betty Busler, have agreed to turn over $8,000 in frozen funds as part of a settlement of Federal Trade Commission charges that they engaged in...

The Federal Trade Commission is conducting a review of its 900-Number Rule to determine whether it has been effective in curbing abuses associated with 900-number services. The Commission also is...

A Federal Trade Commission Administrative Law Judge has found that the "ABS/Trax" add-on braking system marketed by Automotive Breakthrough Sciences, Inc. and ABS Tech Sciences, Inc., and purported to...