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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
<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 ...
<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 ...
