Consumers Getting Smoked by E-Cigs Consumer News 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 Consumer News GE Capital to Pay Out Millions to Settle Deception Charges CFPB cites bank for discriminatory and misleading practices.
Capital One Credit Cards Class Action Capital One Credit Cards Allegations: Falsely advertising that consumers can get pre-approved for credit cards in a process that does not affect their credit score when the company runs a type of credit report…
Bank of America Rewards Credit Cards Class Action Bank of America Rewards Credit Cards Allegations: Falsely advertising that consumers who apply for rewards credit cards and meet a specified spending minimum in a certain amount of time would be paid sign-up bonuses
Gas Prices at Valero Stations Class Action Gas Prices at Valero Stations Allegations: Failing to disclose that consumers who pay with debit cards pay higher prices
Capital One Credit Cards Class Action Capital One Credit Cards Allegations: Misleadingly representing that it would help credit card customers during the COVID-19 pandemic when the company systematically denied customers’ requests for help
Calling Card Companies Fined $30M for Misleading Consumers Consumer News Calling Card Companies Fined $30M for Misleading Consumers FCC says advertised minutes had an impossible stipulation.
Medicare Benefit Update, aka Unified Health Ad Alert Medicare Benefit Update, aka Unified Health Deceptive mailer targets Medicare recipients.
Amazon’s Nissan Rogue Offer Ad Alert Amazon’s Nissan Rogue Offer From this week’s edition of “reading the fine print for you”: Nissan is offering a $1,000 gift card to In actuality a cherished geographical region of the planet featuring enormous…
Fetch: Over $1 Billion in Rewards Ad Alert Fetch: Over $1 Billion in Rewards TINA.org investigates advertised milestone.
Ad or Not? BuzzFeed’s Buy Me That Section Consumer News Ad or Not? BuzzFeed’s Buy Me That Section Unwrapping BuzzFeed’s holiday gift ideas.
TINA.org’s 12 Days of Christmas Consumer News TINA.org’s 12 Days of Christmas Our gift to you this year was the same as last: Tidings of deceptive advertising.
Multilevel Marketing: The Day Job that Doesn’t Pay Consumer News Multilevel Marketing: The Day Job that Doesn’t Pay More than 97 percent of DSA member companies use or have used misleading income claims.
MLMs Continue to Recruit with Deceptive Earnings Claims Consumer News MLMs Continue to Recruit with Deceptive Earnings Claims TINA.org investigation finds 98% of MLMs using misleading income claims.
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3 Ways Citibank Misled Consumers Consumer News 3 Ways Citibank Misled Consumers Citibank’s shady credit card practices leads to $700 million in customer refunds.