Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime Economy Sep 25, 2025 11:52 AM EDT

SEATTLE (AP) — Amazon has reached a historic $2.5 billion settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which said the online retail giant tricked customers into signing up for its Prime memberships and made it difficult for them to cancel after doing so.

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The Seattle company will pay $1 billion in civil penalties — the largest FTC fine in FTC’s history, and $1.5 billion will be paid to consumers who were unintentionally enrolled in Prime, or were deterred from canceling their subscriptions, the agency said Thursday.

The trial in Seattle started t

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