Mercedes Slams Brakes on Built in USA Claims after TINA.org Inquiry

TINA.org found the German automaker didn’t have the support to claim its Sprinter van was “built in the USA.”

InterCoast Career Institute’s LPN Program

ACT Total Care Anticavity Fluoride Mouthwash

Deceptive Ads

Carrington Farms Brand Coconut Oil Products

5 Not-So-Natural Personal Care Products

With Earth Day right around the corner, here’s a handful of items whose earthy claims have been challenged.

Bagging Claims by Unofficial Oscar Swag Companies

Cue the play-off music.

InterCoast Career Institute’s Nursing Program in Maine

Promotional Gift Cards from Sleepy’s

Target Debit Card

The Snag in the Swag Bag

Academy tries to bring down curtains on Oscar gift bag claims

FTC: 15 Skin Care Companies Offering ‘Bogus’ Free Trials

Agency obtains restraining order against skin care marketers who it alleges repeatedly charged consumers.

Oprah’s Anti-Aging Secret? Not Likely

Website really links to Vitalie Skin Care Serum and Lumalift Eye Cream, which have secrets of their own.

Whose Choice Is it at Choice Hotels?

Consumer says he was misled with hotel chain’s summer promotion for a $50 gift card.

Consumers Getting Smoked by E-Cigs

Consumers complain to feds that various e-cig companies are fleecing them into repeated credit card charges for vapor products.

GE Capital to Pay Out Millions to Settle Deception Charges

CFPB cites bank for discriminatory and misleading practices.

CarTagz.com – CA Registration Renewal

Trying to renew your car registration in California? A TINA.org reader wants to make sure you don’t get fooled by this Google ad: While trying to renew her registration, our…

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU)

The Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU), a unit of the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council, is the advertising industry’s primary self-regulatory organization responsible for monitoring ad content – across all media channels…

Health care price tags won’t find you the best doctor

Michael L. Millenson, STAT News

HP Ink and Toner Cartridges

Allegations: Failing to disclose that firmware updates would make non-HP cartridges incompatible with HP printers