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Skechers to pay $40M to settle government charges over claim that fitness shoes toned muscles
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers' fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian's curves or...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at wickedfire):
Follow the @FTC on Twitter and ask questions using the hashtag #FTCbcp....
To 2:30 p.m.
More importantly
SOCIAL CHATS: FTC staff will answer the public's questions about the settlement online May 16, 2012 from 2:00 p.m.
That's so sketchy.
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Federal authorities have asked a federal judge to shut down an operation that they said installed intrusive "spyware" on people's computers and then sold anti-spyware software to those same victims, a top consumer protection official said today.
The complaint...
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FTC: Skechers deceived consumers with shoe ads
WASHINGTON The government wants you to know that simply sporting a pair of Skechers' fitness shoes is not going to get you Kim Kardashian's curves or Brooke Burke's toned tush.
Skechers USA Inc. will pay...
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I don't know.
You should file a claim with the FTC.
That explains it.
This past weekend in Ross for $25.
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Ask your Facebook Friends
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On Fri, 05 Jun 2009 06:53:23 +0200, Steve Linford <linford@spamhaus.org
Also more info on this at:
FTC Press Release:
<http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/06/3fn.shtm
Spam servers shut by FTC:
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2243574/suspected-...
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Division;
Gary Warner, Director of Research in Computer Forensics,
University of Alabama was made possible by a joint effort between the
FTC, The Spamhaus Project, [...]"
Bravo!
Beverly.
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On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:30:00 -0400, "Sancho Panza" <otterpower@xhotmail.com
FTC plans to monitor blogs for claims, payments
By DEBORAH YAO - 20 hours ago
Savvy consumers often go online for independent consumer reviews of products
and services...
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$800 a
month?
Curt On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:04:14....
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:18:01 -0700 (PDT), Curt <obadiahlynch@gmail.com
On Jun 22, 7:30 am, "Sancho Panza" <otterpo...@xhotmail.com
Not if she doesn't accept payment for advertising the stuff .
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:20:54 -0400, Ari® <AriSilverstein@army.com
A privacy advocacy group has asked the Federal Trade Commission to pull
the plug on Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and the company's
other Web apps until government-approved...
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On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:07:17 -0700 (PDT), "baynole2@yahoo.com" <baynole@gmail.com
I think this proposed action is a bit extreme.However, a large amount
of skepticism should exist where "cloud computing," & issues of
privacy & reliability, are concerned... .
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:22:51 -0400, Nick the Amateur LARTist <nanae+200906@nicksandru.com
From The Register:
"Federal authorities have shut down what they said was the worst US-based web
hosting provider after convincing a judge it actively participated...
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On Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:58:30 -0700, DLU <david@justthe.net
See also:
FTC shuts more info on this at:
FTC Press Release:
<http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2009/06/3fn.shtm
Spam servers shut by FTC:
<http://....
A Grandparent.
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:58:35 -0700, Andrew Hamilton <Ahamilton90900@yahoo.com
I'm looking for a boot manager that allows me to have multiples OS
partitions on my C drive, but with the inactive partitions hidden, and
an easy way to select the OS ...
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On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:17:25 -0400.
Couragetoresist.org
Send spam to the FTC at
spam@uce.gov
Thanks, robots.
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I knew they were too good to be true! I'm still fat as ****!
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/us/ftc...html?hpt=hp_t2
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Gottem.jpg Like om i wore them.
Said David Vladeck, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
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This FTC class action lawsuit against Sketchers just gets better and better. I forgot that Kim Kardashian was their piiiimmmp for those stupid ShapeUp shoes.
EvilPeeky is happy when the government delivers a massive economic paw swat to things she hates...
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How could.
Sketchers cited was supposedly done by a chiropractor who was married to the marketing director.
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