H&R Block
FTC alleges company pressures consumers into overpaying for its tax filing software.
In February 2020, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Unreal Mobile for allegedly engaging in a bait-and-switch scheme where it falsely advertises that consumers who have its “unlimited talk, text and 1 GB of data” monthly plans could roll over up to 500MB of unused data to the next month for no additional fees when, according to plaintiffs, the company changed its policies in April 2019 and started charging consumers an additional $3.33 a month for rollover plans. (Ling et al v. STS Media, Inc. d/b/a Unreal Mobile, Case No. 20-cv-1173, N.D. Cal.)
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FTC alleges company pressures consumers into overpaying for its tax filing software.
Bogus report leads to unapproved health claims.
Lawsuits take aim at so-called non-disparagement clauses.
The consumer advocacy organization truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) has published the results of a yearslong investigation into the multilevel marketing (MLM) industry that found widespread use of deceptive income claims to promote…
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