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Improve your Chances for Successful Home Improvements

Improve your Chances for Successful Home Improvements

Do you need to put an addition on your house? Want to install central air conditioning? Then you may be lured by home improvement ads. But don’t believe everything you…

Business Opportunities May Not be Opportunities at All

Business Opportunities May Not be Opportunities at All

Business opportunities can be appealing to many consumers because they offer people a chance to be their own boss. In addition, these opportunities frequently claim to provide a fail-proof, “turn-key”…

Maintenance Plans

Maintenance Plans

Maintenance plans – also commonly referred to as “service plans” – are sold by car dealerships at the time of purchase (leases include a scheduled maintenance plan) and are sometimes…

Scareware Suit Settled but Consumers Don’t Really Win

Scareware Suit Settled but Consumers Don’t Really Win

A little over a year after being sued for “falsely identify[ing] computer problems and characteriz[ing] them as “severe” in an attempt to scare consumers into purchasing its software,” Ascentive, the…

Misleading Drug Marketing Might Just Kill You

Misleading Drug Marketing Might Just Kill You

Amgen, the world’s largest biotechnology company that made billions marketing its anemia drug Aranesp for unapproved uses, agreed to pay $762 million to settle off-use marketing charges.

Try Again, TriVita: Wellness Drink Makers to Pay $3.5M

Try Again, TriVita: Wellness Drink Makers to Pay $3.5M

FTC reaches settlement over Cactus-based drink’s prickly claims.

DoTerra Distributors’ Drug Claims Violate the Law

DoTerra Distributors’ Drug Claims Violate the Law

TINA.org inquiry into essential oils MLM digs up more than 140 examples of unsubstantiated health claims.

Six Ways to Protect Yourself from a Mortgage Scam

Six Ways to Protect Yourself from a Mortgage Scam

Mortgages are enough of a headache without unscrupulous lenders.

TINA’s Take: Nerium’s Move To Disappear and Reinvent Itself as Neora

TINA’s Take: Nerium’s Move To Disappear and Reinvent Itself as Neora

Different name, same inappropriate marketing claims.

Pyramid Scheme Lawsuit Against Jeunesse Seeks $1 Billion

Pyramid Scheme Lawsuit Against Jeunesse Seeks $1 Billion

Jeunesse and Diamond distributors facing third pyramid scheme complaint in 10 months.

Expert Economist Declares Jeunesse a Pyramid Scheme

Expert Economist Declares Jeunesse a Pyramid Scheme

Federal class-action lawsuit turns up heat on Jeunesse.

Kyani Hit with Pyramid Scheme Complaint

Kyani Hit with Pyramid Scheme Complaint

Class action against Kyani includes unknown top distributors.

Glucosamine Settlement Is a Raw Deal for Consumers

Glucosamine Settlement Is a Raw Deal for Consumers

TINA.org objects to proposed settlement in which marketer and plaintiffs’ attorneys are the only winners.

Winter Olympics Stumble Out the Gate Re #Ad Disclosure

Winter Olympics Stumble Out the Gate Re #Ad Disclosure

These brand-relationship disclosures are far from world-class.

DJ Khaled’s Snapchat Sobers Up

DJ Khaled’s Snapchat Sobers Up

The ‘King of Snapchat’ scales back promotion of alcohol following TINA.org investigation.

Fourth Jeunesse Pyramid Scheme Lawsuit Filed

Fourth Jeunesse Pyramid Scheme Lawsuit Filed

New lawsuit calls Jeunesse a pyramid scheme while taking aim at product line.

Ad or Not? Memorial Sloan Kettering and WPIX 11 New York

Ad or Not? Memorial Sloan Kettering and WPIX 11 New York

‘Health news segment’ seems a lot like advertising.

TINA.org Objects to Jeunesse Settlement that Snubs Consumers

TINA.org Objects to Jeunesse Settlement that Snubs Consumers

TINA.org breaks down unfair and inadequate MLM settlement by the numbers.

TINA.org Files Complaint against Diageo Regarding Its Ciroc Influencers

TINA.org Files Complaint against Diageo Regarding Its Ciroc Influencers

TINA.org finds more than 1,700 undisclosed alcohol ads published on Instagram by 50 Ciroc influencers.

FTC Made in USA Actions Since 1996

FTC Made in USA Actions Since 1996

A review of the FTC’s Made in USA enforcement actions