Operators of a debt collection scheme that allegedly sought payment for bogus magazine subscriptions have settled with the Federal Trade Commission. The proposed settlement, filed by the Justice Department on behalf ...

Promoters of an “own-your-own” website business opportunity falsely promised consumers would earn thousands of dollars in commissions from online purchases, according to the Federal Trade Commission. A ...

Despite the proliferation of cell phones and face-to-face online connectivity, prepaid calling cards are still around, and so are the schemes that prey on unsuspecting consumers, many of them low-income residents, ...

The watchdog over the U.S. Internal Revenue Service said the IRS did not catch at least 1.5 million bogus tax refunds in 2010, and that illustrates the scope of identity theft-driven fraud that goes undetected every ...

MySpace.com – once the dominant social networking site before Facebook’s rapid dominance – misled millions of users by sharing their personal information with advertisers, while misrepresenting consumer protections, ...

The Federal Trade Commission alleges that the nation’s largest third-party billing company made it possible for con artists to steal more than $70 million in bogus phone bill charges in a practice known as “cramming.” The ...

A federal court judge has ruled that the marketers behind get-rich-quick infomercials – peddling real estate and Internet riches – misled consumers in violation of federal law, according to the Federal Trade ...

The Federal Communications Commission has adopted new rules to protect Americans from hard-to-detect fraudulent charges on their landline phone bills, a practice known as “cramming.” The new rules combat the ...

There were more than 5.5 billion malicious malware attacks on computer systems in 2011, an increase of more than 81 percent from the previous year, according to a new report by the computer security firm Symantec. The ...

The Federal Trade Commission wants first-hand accounts of how identity theft affects senior citizens so it can formulate enforcement agendas, policy initiatives and a consumer education campaign. Seniors are particularly ...