Federal Trade Commission staff submitted comments to the Tennessee General Assembly in support of a state law exemption that allows non-veterinarians to practice animal massage therapy in Tennessee
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Defendants allegedly misled consumers into believing they were ordering “free trials” of products; used decoy websites to conceal their deceptive conduct
A vast network of online marketers and the three people behind it have agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that they sold more than 40 weight-loss, muscle-building, and wrinkle-reduction products to consumers using unsubstantiated health claims, fake magazine and news sites, bogus celebrity endorsements, and phony consumer testimonials
Company paid $586 million to settle charges
The Federal Trade Commission is alerting consumers who lost money to scammers who told them to pay via Western Union’s money transfer system between January 1, 2004 and January 19, 2017, that they can now file a claim to get their money back by going to FTC
The Office of Financial Empowerment welcomes 61 organizations to receive
Your Money, Your Goals training and technical assistance to expand the reach of
financial empowerment tools and information to economically vulnerable
consumers
If you’ve checked out your credit scores for
free, share your experience so that we and others can learn from it
Over the last few years, many credit card and other companies have begun
to offer consumers free access to their credit scores
Acting Federal Trade Commission Chairman Maureen K
CFPB and our Office of Servicemembers Affairs are
honored to recognize our nation’s servicemembers, veterans, and their families
this Veterans Day
One owner, corporate defendants permanently barred from telemarketing
Two brothers and the companies they ran have settled a federal district court complaint brought by the Federal Trade Commission and litigated by the Department of Justice, that charged them with running a telemarketing operation that made millions of illegal robocalls promising consumers energy savings in order to generate leads to sell to solar panel installation companies
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court temporarily halted a New York-based office supply scheme that charged small businesses and non-profit organizations millions of dollars for “free” samples of cleaning and other products
