Contact the Attorney General's Public Inquiry Unit to report a complaint about a business or if you have questions or comments. Select a term below that best fits the professional or business that you wish to file a complaint against.When a company engages in fraudulent, deceptive, or unsafe practices, Matern Law Group helps San Jose consumers hold them accountable. A lawsuit alleging some type of business tort is one way to hold a competitor liable for deceptive and unfair business practices. It's illegal to take part in deceptive, false, and misleading advertising. Unfair business practices encompass a wide range of behaviors that create an uneven advantage through deceptive, dishonest, or unethical means. The UCL also expressly prohibits "unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising" and incorporates California's False Advertising Law, Cal. If you have these or any other concerns related to unfair business practices in California, call us at 408-550-1732. We enforce federal competition and consumer protection laws that prevent anticompetitive, deceptive, and unfair business practices. The prohibition against "unfair, deceptive, untrue or misleading advertising" is duplicative of the prohibition against "fraudulent" businesses practices.