Two more online marketers have agreed to settlements with the Federal Trade Commission that permanently halt their allegedly deceptive “fake news websites” to promote acai berry supplements and so-called colon ...

Over the past year, the Federal Trade Commission said it has brought or resolved seven debt collection cases affecting hundreds of thousands of consumers, the highest number of such cases the agency has taken on ...

The two debt collectors threatened consumers with physical harm or death to them and their pets, using profane language, according to the Federal Trade Commission. The two men who worked for an allegedly abusive ...

A survey of identity theft victims found that many do not fully understand their rights under federal law and many said they feel pressured into buying monitoring services when contacting one of the credit bureaus ...

Across the nation, U.S. agencies, consumer advocates and state attorneys general are reminding the public to be vigilant of the wide range of deceptive and outright illegal schemes targeting consumers. National ...

The Federal Trade Commission has reached a settlement with the operators of a vacation prize scheme, alleging they tricked consumers into believing they had won a vacation package as a prize, and then failing to ...

For the 12th year in a row, identity theft topped the list of consumer complaints filed in 2011 with the Federal Trade Commission. Of more than 1.8 million complaints filed in 2011, 279,156 – or 15 percent – ...

The Federal Trade Commission has settled with two operations that allegedly enabled telemarketers to place “hundreds of millions” of illegally prerecorded calls to U.S. consumers. Many of those consumers had ...

The Federal Trade Commission said it has stopped an Internet scheme that used bogus “free” product offers, charging consumers in the United States and other countries for products and services they did ...

Dealer-arranged financing to purchase cars, SUVs and light trucks can be a “complicated, opaque process” and could potentially involve unfair or deceptive practices, according to the Federal Trade Commission. So ...