Explore U.S. consumer protection laws that shield against scams and unethical practices like predatory lending, ensuring your ...

President-elect Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Des Moines Register, filed Monday, relies on an Iowa consumer protection law to stake out claims related to the Des Moines Register/Mediacom Iowa ...

How bad is consumer fraud? Let’s put it this way: it’s quickly moving from bad to worse. Very quickly. Fraudulent transactions in the first half of 2024 were up over 73% year over year, and suspected ...

Affinity or “Pig Butchering” Scheme: A major focus of 2025 enforcement, this long con combines romance and finance. Scammers ...

Legal experts representing different ends of the political spectrum say the recent lawsuit by President-elect Donald Trump against the Des Moines Register is based on a strained interpretation of Iowa ...

TULSA, Okla. — New Federal Trade Commission data shows consumers reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, which represents a 25% increase over the prior year. Scammers reaching out ...

Everyday consumers are shoplifting, cheating on returns, and committing other "mini crimes" to get back at big businesses.

Even as the housing market slowed in 2022 and 2023, the fraudulent activity of bad actors did not let up. In its 2024 State of Wire Fraud report, wire fraud protection firm CertifID found that nearly ...

Suspicious activity reports, or SARs, from banks related to fraud are on pace to level off this year for what would be the first time since 2014, when the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network began ...

Senators Shelley Moore Capito and Amy Klobuchar have moved to confront one of the fastest growing consumer threats of the ...

Your May 23 editorial "Consumers Buy Goods, Not Lawsuits" underscores the need to clarify contradictory provisions of New Jersey's Consumer Fraud Act. The current elements of liability under the ...