Federal Trade Commission

...with Blue Hippo last year. But the agency recently filed contempt charges, claiming the company continues to deceive customers. The FTC says the company continues taking money and orders, but has not been delivering in many cases.

In this article: Complaint, Better Business Bureau, Baltimore, Maryland, All rights reserved, The E.W. Scripps Co., and Ohio

...a customer restore their credit rating if they are a victim of identity theft. Pre-Paid Legal Services, based in Ada, Okla., said the FTC had sent a draft of the proposed lawsuit and may decide to formally sue. The draft also names CEO...

In this article: Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc., Oklahoma, Defendant, and Harland Stonecipher

...by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for charging consumers US$59.95 a month for enrollment in an "online-supplier" program, the FTC said Thursday. The proposed settlement, filed in U.S. District Court for the Central District of...

In this article: FTC, Defendant, EBay, Complaint, and Informed consent

...new site-a Qchex clone-with the same questionable policies that made Qchex a "dinner bell for fraudsters." This has left the FTC fuming, and it wants the site's operators to quit helping criminals rip people off-now. You may remember Qchex...

In this article: Complaint and Goods and services

...business model could help customers engage in fraud by stealing funds from unsuspecting people's bank accounts, the FTC said. The FTC has asked the court to impose fines of $10,000 a day or send the defendants to prison, for their "utter...

In this article: Defendant, Complaint, Injunction, Linux, and IDC

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's consumer protection chief for Attorney General Roy Cooper has been picked to join the Federal Trade Commission. President Obama nominated Julie Brill to the five-member commission that oversees...

In this article: Barack Obama, North Carolina, Roy Cooper, Columbia University School of Law, Department of Justice, The White House, and Vermont

...Deborah Majoras, who stepped down in March 2008, and independent Pamela Jones Harbor, whose term ended in September. The FTC also divides the work of enforcing antitrust law with the U.S. Justice Department. The FTC is assessing...

In this article: Barack Obama, Schering-Plough Corp, Northrop Grumman Corp., and Mattel Inc

...that purports to finance computers for consumers with bad credit in contempt for continuing to make false representations. In April 2008, the FTC and BlueHippo, a Maryland-based company whose Web site states, "Your approval is guaranteed!

In this article: BlueHippo, Injunction, Darrell McGraw, Maryland, and West Virginia

...to take millions of dollars from consumers and failing to deliver computers as promised. If the court issues a contempt order, the FTC also seeks bans that would prevent BlueHippo from financing and selling consumer electronics, said James...

In this article: BlueHippo Funding, Complaint, Maryland, Better Business Bureau, and Attorney General