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The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order requiring Marriott International, Inc

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The Federal Trade Commission will hold an informal hearing on the proposal to amend its existing impersonation rule to ban the impersonation of individuals at 1:00 p

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A group of 10 car dealerships doing business as Leader Automotive Group and their parent company, AutoCanada, will be required to pay $20 million to settle allegations they systematically defrauded consumers looking to buy vehicles as a result of a lawsuit by the Federal Trade Commission and state of Illinois

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The Federal Trade Commission today announced a final Junk Fees Rule to prohibit bait-and-switch pricing and other tactics used to hide total prices and bury junk fees in the live-event ticketing and short-term lodging industries

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Grubhub will pay $25 million to settle charges from the Federal Trade Commission and the Illinois Attorney General that the food delivery firm engaged in an array of unlawful practices including deceiving diners about delivery costs and blocking their access to their accounts and funds, deceiving workers about how much money they would make delivering food, and unfairly and deceptively listing restaurants on its platform without their permission

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The Federal Trade Commission and the Illinois Attorney General will announce a major law enforcement action at 11 a

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New Federal Trade Commission complaint data show a sharp spike in online job scams that require consumers to repeat sets of tasks, which tracks closely with an increase in reported losses to job scams overall

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The Federal Trade Commission is sending more than $540,000 in refunds to consumers who paid a group of abusive debt collectors who threatened consumers with lawsuits or arrest if they failed to pay debt that they might not have even owed

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Samuel Levine, Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, issued the following statement on the ruling by the U

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As open enrollment season for healthcare plans is ongoing, the staff of the Federal Trade Commission is sending warning letters to 21 companies that market or generate sales leads for such plans, providing guidance, and putting the companies on notice, about deceptive or unfair claims that likely violate laws enforced by the agency

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