Press Releases

National advertisements urging consumers to call 1-800-DONOTCALL and pay a $2.95 fee to sign up for the National Do Not Call Registry have prompted the Federal Trade Commission to issue a warning to...

The Federal Trade Commission has issued its second report highlighting efforts to detect and prosecute violators of FTC-obtained court orders. In January 2002, the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection...

Addressing business executives and government officials at the Aspen Summit in Aspen, Colorado, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Timothy J. Muris today explained how competition, consumer protection...

The national Do Not Call registry, which already contains more than 32 million telephone numbers, will pass a significant milestone on August 31, 2003. The registry will become available to...

Two marketers of false international driver’s permits (IDPs) and one financial processor for IDP marketers have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated federal laws by deceptively...

Commission authorization of the staff to file amicus brief : The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amicus brief, at the request of the court, in Pruitt v. Kaufman & Broad Home Corp., et...

Louisville, KY – On Tuesday, September 9th, the Federal Trade Commission, the Kentucky Attorney General's Office, and the Better Business Bureau of Louisville, Southern Indiana, and Western Kentucky...

Two Florida-based companies and their president have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated the Commission’s Mail or Telephone Order Merchandise Rule (Rule). According to the...

GoodTimes Entertainment Limited (GoodTimes) and GT Merchandising & Licensing Corporation (GTM&L), direct marketers headquartered in New York City, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission...

The Federal Trade Commission has filed suit in U.S. District Court charging Mercury Marketing of Delaware, now doing business as GoInternet.net, and its principal Neal D. Saferstein with contempt of...

Advertising and promotion expenditures for smokeless tobacco products reached $236.7 million in 2001, according to a biennial Federal Trade Commission report. The report shows that promotional...

Commission authorization of the staff to file amicus brief and appear as amicus curiae : The Commission has authorized the staff to file an amicus brief and to appear as amicus curiae in Carter v. ICR...

In three separate recent actions, the Federal Trade Commission has settled charges against companies engaged in the deceptive sale of "equal employment opportunity" advertisements. The defendants...

One of the country’s largest credit-repair operations has agreed to pay more than $1.15 million in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated federal law. The...

Global Vending Services, Inc., headquartered in Las Vegas, and its principals, Nicholas G. Chomakos and Matthew A. Capicchioni, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they failed...

Alleging that Aspen Technology, Inc’s (AspenTech) $106.1 million acquisition of Hyprotech, Ltd. (Hyprotech) in 2002 was anticompetitive and led to the elimination of a significant competitor in the...

During the five weeks since it opened on June 27, consumers have registered more than 30 million telephone numbers in the National Do Not Call Registry: nearly 24 million, or 80 percent of those...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the appointments of Ann Malester as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Competition and Steven K. Bernstein as Assistant Director for Mergers I, one of the...

Two companies who marketed and sold bogus cell phone radiation protection patches have settled Federal Trade Commission charges that they violated federal laws by making false and misleading claims...

Two companies settled FTC charges today that they fraudulently marketed purportedly authentic International Driver’s Permits (IDPs) on the Internet. Under the terms of the settlement, the defendants...