Operation Lost Opportunity: Feds Go after Job Scams Consumer News Operation Lost Opportunity: Feds Go after Job Scams Under a continued crackdown on Too frequently, the term proves to be simply a euphemism for sending your money along to an unknown person or company and then watching your…
Internet Scams: Avoiding Fraud on the World Wide Web Consumer News Internet Scams: Avoiding Fraud on the World Wide Web Over 200 million people in the U.S. are now Internet users. Many of our daily activities – reading the news, watching movies, paying bills, buying products, and even catching up…
Free Doesn’t Usually Mean Free Consumer Basics Free Doesn’t Usually Mean Free There’s lots of strings attached to offers of free products and services.
Merchant Lynx Services Class Action Merchant Lynx Services Allegations: Charging merchants undisclosed fees for processing credit card payments
MoviePass: ‘Get a Month Free’ Ad Alert MoviePass: ‘Get a Month Free’ The movie ticket subscription service is back. Unfortunately, so too are the deceptive ads.
Puffery – A Marketer’s Right To Lie Consumer Basics Puffery – A Marketer’s Right To Lie Ads can legally lie to you as long as the lie is so obvious an exaggeration that you know not to take it seriously.
FTC and State AGs Need to Take Their Relationship to the Next Level Blog FTC and State AGs Need to Take Their Relationship to the Next Level TINA.org files comment concerning coordinated efforts to protect consumers.
Royal Dutch Airlines Class Action Royal Dutch Airlines Allegations: Misleadingly marketing that the airline uses sustainable biofuel and that consumers who purchase carbon credits in its CO2ZERO program offset the environmental impact of flying
AT&T’s Connectivity Guarantee Ad Alert AT&T’s Connectivity Guarantee Is it still a guarantee if it has strings attached?
1st Phorm’s ‘110% Money-Back Guarantee’ Ad Alert 1st Phorm’s ‘110% Money-Back Guarantee’ Money-back guarantee comes up woefully short of advertised percentage.
Fabletics VIP Membership Program Class Action Fabletics VIP Membership Program Allegations: Misleadingly marketing the benefits that members receive from their Promotional Member Credit and failing to adequately disclose the terms of subscriptions
Vuse Vape Devices Class Action Vuse Vape Devices Allegations: Falsely marketing products as carbon neutral
The Unsettling Ticketmaster Settlement Blog The Unsettling Ticketmaster Settlement This settlement goes in the worst file.
Marketers Downplay Consumer Harm Caused by Negative Option Offers Blog Marketers Downplay Consumer Harm Caused by Negative Option Offers Marketers are attempting to put a positive spin on the negative option.
Hubble Contacts Ad Alert Hubble Contacts The first box may be “free” (sort of) but the second one isn’t and it’s on its way before you know it.
Ad or Not? Kylie Jenner Consumer News Ad or Not? Kylie Jenner Just a nice shoutout on Instagram or was Kylie Jenner making up with make-up artist Vlada Haggerty?
CATrends: Loot Boxes in Video Games Consumer News CATrends: Loot Boxes in Video Games Class-action trend likens purchasing loot boxes in video games to pulling a lever on a slot machine.