There are 3 article(s) tagged Federal Trade Commission:

• January 2019

  • FTC’s Cooling-Off Rule may help with buyer’s remorse

    The Better Business Bureau often receives complaints that make it clear the consumers didn’t realize they had the right to change their mind about a transaction. The merchant involved may have been blissfully, or willfully, ignorant of its obligation to inform the consumers of their rights and to provide the required form.

    By Randy Hutchinson January 30, 2019

• December 2018

  • MoneyGram charged (again) with facilitating fraud

    An old adage says “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” The Federal Trade Commission didn’t take kindly to being fooled twice by MoneyGram International and imposed a $125 million fine on the company, which operates a network of about 350,000 money transfer locations worldwide. The Department of Justice said MoneyGram also violated a similar agreement it reached with the company in 2012.

    By Randy Hutchinson December 29, 2018

  • Hutchinson: ‘All natural’ means all natural

    Even if you’re not a chemist, you’ll probably surmise that butyloctyl salicylate and polyquaternium-37 are not naturally occurring substances. Yet they and other synthetic ingredients with similarly difficult-to-pronounce names were contained in products marketed as “all natural” or “100 percent natural.”

    By Randy Hutchinson December 01, 2018