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Federal Trade Commission staff sent letters to operators of websites that sell Employer Identification Number (EIN) filing and delivery services warning that some of their practices may violate the FTC Act and the Impersonation Rule, which prohibit posing as or misrepresenting affiliation with a government agency

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Today, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N Ferguson issued a letter to the U

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The Federal Trade Commission named five additional corporate defendants and two individuals in its ongoing case against a student loan debt relief operation

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Online cash advance company Cleo AI has agreed to pay $17 million to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s allegations that the company deceived consumers about how much money they could get and how fast that money could be available

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Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N

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Today, the Federal Trade Commission announced a workshop entitled “The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families

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The Federal Trade Commission is requiring operators of a deceptive business opportunity to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to settle allegations they misled consumers with false promises of big returns selling goods through Amazon and Walmart

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At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a federal court temporarily halted a business opportunity scheme known as Click Profit, which took millions from consumers by falsely promising consumers that they could earn big profits through online sales

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As a result of the agency’s law enforcement actions, the Federal Trade Commission sent $337

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The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $934,000 in refunds to consumers who were harmed by online used car dealer Vroom’s shipment delays

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