May23
Native American Common Ground
Join the Federal Trade Commission, the office of the Attorney General from New Mexico, legal services attorneys, and other consumer advocates at this free event to discuss issues facing consumers...
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FTC Puts Texas-based Operation Permanently Out of the Debt Collection Business After It Allegedly Used Deception, Insults, and False Threats against Consumers
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The owner of a Houston-based debt collection operation that the FTC charged used insults, lies, and false threats of imprisonment to collect on payday loans will surrender his assets, estimated to be...
FTC Testifies on Precious Metals Investment Scams Before Senate Special Committee on Aging
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In testimony before Congress today, the Federal Trade Commission described its efforts to stop precious metals investment scams and inform consumers how to avoid them. Testifying on behalf of the...
FTC Action Leads to Shutdown of Texas-based Debt Collector that Allegedly Used Deception, Insults, and False Threats Against Consumers
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court shut down a Houston-based debt collection operation that allegedly illegally used insults, lies, and false threats to collect on...
FTC Charges Credit Repair Operators With Misleading Credit Bureaus and Charging Consumers Illegal Up-Front Fees
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The Federal Trade Commission has charged the operators of a credit repair company with making false statements to credit bureaus about information in consumers’ credit reports, and illegally...
Sep30
Consumer Protection in Underserved Communities
Join the Federal Trade Commission, the Tulane University School of Law, legal services attorneys and other consumer advocates, and state and federal consumer protection officials at this free event to...
"Free Software CD" Internet Operation Settles FTC Charges
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Defendants who allegedly offered “free” software CDs that weren’t free, and billed unsuspecting consumers for a software continuity program they didn’t know they were enrolled in, have agreed to...
FTC Halts Deceptive Free Software CD Internet Scam
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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a United States Magistrate Judge has temporarily halted the marketing practices of an operation that deceptively advertised “free software CDs” but...
FTC and States Unite to Fight Fundraising Fraud
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The Federal Trade Commission today announced "Operation Phoney Philanthropy" - a law enforcement and public education campaign by the FTC and state charities regulators to stop fraudulent fundraising...
Competition Matters
FTC at work outside the Beltway
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This week, we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first FTC regional office. According to the Commission’s 1918 Annual Report, the FTC first established three branch offices in...
Business Blog
Root, root root for the regions
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This year eight major league baseball teams are celebrating milestone anniversaries – and so are the FTC’s regional offices. In 1918, the Commission opened the first three of its regional offices...
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