Press Releases

Operators who auctioned computer-related products on Internet sites, but allegedly failed to deliver the merchandise that consumers paid for, have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges...

With the cost of college education rising over 600 percent since 1969, students and their families often look for alternate ways to finance their education. Some fall victim to scholarship and...

The Commission has approved the publication of a Federal Register notice concerning Draft Guidelines for Ensuring and Maximizing the Quality, Objectivity, Utility, and Integrity of Information...

Consumers allegedly defrauded by a Montreal, Canada-based telemarketer and his related businesses will receive more than $111,000 in consumer redress under the terms of a court settlement with the...

The Commission has approved a divestiture by Valero Energy Corporation (Valero) and Ultramar Diamond Shamrock Corporation (Ultramar) of the "Golden Eagle CARB Refining and Marketing Assets" in...

Testifying on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission today before the Subcommittee on Children and Families of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, Eileen Harrington of the...

A Canadian company and its principal have agreed to pay $375,000 in consumer redress to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that their domain name sales scheme violated federal laws. The...

The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice today announced times, location, and participants for the May 2, 2002 session in their joint hearings on...

"Spam" e-mail messages claiming that consumers had won a free Sony PlayStation 2 or other prize through a promotion purportedly sponsored by Yahoo, Inc., instead routed consumers to an adult Internet...

An Orlando, Florida-based company doing business as Advanced Consumer Services (ACS) and its principals caught up in the Federal Trade Commission's 2000 "Operation Protection Deception" law...

The Federal Trade Commission today outlined the steps it has taken to assure competitive gasoline pricing in the United States. Testifying today before the House Government Reform Committee's...

The Commission has approved an amended complaint in its case against Capital Choice Consumer Credit, Inc., et al. Through the action, the FTC has added Ecommex Corporation as a defendant in this...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced its first complaint against - and consent order with - a pharmaceutical manufacturer for allegedly illegally acquiring an exclusive patent license and...

The Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission today told a Senate committee that the agency is extending its efforts to protect consumers from anticompetitive practices that block the timely entry of...

The Federal Trade Commission will hold a media availability on Tuesday, April 23, at 1:00 p.m. EST to announce the first FTC law enforcement action stemming from the allegedly wrongful listing of a...

Who: J. Howard Beales, III, Director Bureau of Consumer Protection Federal Trade Commission When: Wednesday, April 24, 2002, 11:00 am (room will open at 10:30 p.m. for camera set-up) Where: Federal...

In a 32-page opinion issued April 22, 2002, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted the Federal Trade Commission's motion for a preliminary injunction...

On the second anniversary of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Rule, the Federal Trade Commission announced its sixth COPPA enforcement case together with new initiatives designed to enhance...

The twelfth and final complaint filed through the FTC's recently announced "Operation Dialing for Deception" law enforcement action has been unsealed by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District...

A California-based company that sells a sonic toothbrush kit has agreed to pay a $28,000 civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it violated the FTC's Mail or Telephone Order...