Press Releases

Texas-based defendants who engaged in a scam in which they e-mailed consumers promising to provide them with a credit card agreed to pay $815,000 in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission...

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), to reopen and modify a...

Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris today announced that M. Sean Royall, who has served as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition since June 2001, will be leaving the FTC...

Telebrands Corp., TV Savings LLC, and their owner, Ajit Khubani, have been charged by the Federal Trade Commission with making the same type of false claims in the marketing and sale of their "Ab...

Yesterday, the United States District Court for the District of Colorado held that a Do Not Call registry allowing consumers to avoid receiving commercial telemarketing calls is unconstitutional...

Today, the Federal Trade Commission filed an appeal of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado order that enjoins the FTC from enforcing the provisions of the Telemarketing Sales...

Operators that used deceptive spam and a Web site to recruit consumers into an illegal chain letter scheme have agreed to settle FTC charges that their scam violated federal laws. The settlement bars...

Today, the Congress has once again ratified the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to establish a National Do Not Call Registry. I always have believed that the FTC had clear authority to...

Kyle Kimoto, the chief architect of an illicit international telemarketing network, has agreed to the terms of a federal court order to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that his telemarketing...

Network Solutions, Inc. has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that its deceptive marketing practices unlawfully tricked consumers into transferring their Internet domain name registrations to...

Late last year, the Federal Trade Commission issued rules creating the National Do Not Call Registry under the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act. On February 13, 2003, the...

The Federal Trade Commission today filed a motion in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma for a stay pending appeal of the court's September 23, 2003, order declaring...

A group of surgeons in Yakima, Washington, has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it increased the cost of health care for consumers in Yakima by jointly fixing prices in contract...

Issuance of staff advisory opinion: The staff of the FTC's Bureau of Competition has advised counsel for Bay Area Preferred Physicians (BAPP) that it does not presently intend to recommend law...

America Online, Inc. (AOL) and its subsidiary, CompuServe Interactive Services, Inc. (CompuServe), today settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they engaged in two separate unfair practices...

In a staff report released today, the Federal Trade Commission’s State Action Task Force concludes that the scope of the antitrust state action doctrine has expanded dramatically since first...

Under the terms of a proposed consent agreement announced today, the Federal Trade Commission would allow DSM N.V.'s (DSM) proposed $1.89 billion acquisition of Roche Holding AG's (Roche) Vitamins and...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a Consumer Alert, “After a Disaster: Repairing Your Home,” that warns consumers of potential “home repair rip-off artists” who may overcharge, perform shoddy...

Toronto-based telemarketers are banned from selling or telemarketing credit-related goods or services as part of a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC charged the defendants, 1st...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued a Consumer Alert, “Fake Credit Report Sites: Cashing in on Your Personal Information,” that warns consumers about the dangers of a high-tech scam known as...