U.S. Federal Trade Commission

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Many NYC Funeral Homes Deny Consumers Pricing Information

consumeraffairs.com 23 hours ago

Consumers encouraged to know their rights to funeral pricing information A two-month long investigation of the sales practices of New York City funeral homes finds may of them are playing fast and loose with city regulations. Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) Commissioner ...

Internet Crime on the Rise

consumeraffairs.com 5 days ago

Feds report surge due largely to increase in advanced fee scams Online crime complaints increased substantially once again last year, according to a report by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) -- a partnership between the FBI and the National White Collar ...

Netflix Cancels Second Contest Over Privacy Concerns

consumeraffairs.com 5 days ago

Lawsuit, FTC investigation spelled end for competition When Netflix finally announced the winners of its three-year, $1 million contest last fall, the buzz was so great that the company wasted no time in announcing a sequel. That contest gave consumers all over ...

LifeLock settles with FTC over ID theft product claims

SC Magazine 5 days ago

LifeLock will pay $11 million to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and $1 million to a group of 35 state attorneys general to settle charges that the Tempe, Ariz.-based company made false claims that its product could prevent identity theft. LifeLock will ...

Lifelock Agrees to Pay $12 Million to Settle Federal, State Charges

consumeraffairs.com 8 days ago

Settlement bars company from misrepresenting its supposed identity-theft protection service LifeLock, Inc. has agreed to pay $11 million to the Federal Trade Commission and $1 million to a group of 35 state attorneys general to settle charges that the company used false ...

LifeLock will pay $12M to settle false claims case

AP Features 9 days ago

LifeLock Inc. — an identity theft protection company that backed its guarantees by putting its CEO's social security number on the side of its trucks — will pay $12 million to settle claims it misrepresented its services, according to the Federal Trade ...

U.S. approves PepsiCo bottler buy, with conditions

Reuters US Online Report Business News 20 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - PepsiCo Inc <PEP.N> has won U.S. antitrust approval to buy two of its largest bottlers on condition that it take steps to safeguard a rival's business information, the Federal Trade Commission said on Friday. Under an agreement with the ...

Philip Morris, Fortune Tobacco form new Philippine company

AFP American Edition 21 days ago

US-based tobacco giant Philip Morris said Thursday it has formed a new company in the Philippines with local rival Fortune Tobacco Corp., owned by Chinese-Filipino tycoon Lucio Tan. Tan will become chairman of the new company, to be called PMFTC in a ...

Visa cuts off 100 merchants for scamming consumers

AP News 23 days ago

<div id="subtitle">Visa cuts off payments to about 100 merchants after consumer complaints about billing scams</div><div><p>Visa Inc. has cut off 100 scammers who use bogus marketing techniques to dupe consumers in the past six months.</p><p>Among the most common hustles: billing ...

Senate panel approves two Obama nominees for FTC

Reuters US Online Report Politics News 23 days ago

<div><p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate panel on Thursday approved President Barack Obama's picks to fill out the Federal Trade Commission, Julie Brill and Edith Ramirez, sending their nominations to the Senate floor.</p><p>If confirmed, the two will join an FTC that was relatively ...

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