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 ...

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 ...

These developments raise a question: will plaintiffs attempt to bring consumer fraud class actions based on AI products? Historically, consumer fraud class actions are not uncommon once a product has ...

On October 8, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Fraud Enforcement Division (NFED) announced the release of Directive 26-13: ...

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 ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received 3 million fraud reports from consumers in 2025, and those consumers reported $15.9 billion in losses, an official told a congressional committee Wednesday ...

The billions of dollars lost to fraud just keep piling up. Crooks and con artists stole a record $15.9 billion in 2025 in a variety of scams — up from $12.5 billion in 2024, according to the latest ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James fired a consumer fraud lawyer last week after she sounded the alarm both publicly and within the state prosecutor’s office about pediatric “gender care” ...

Back in January 2023, Aimen Halim bought an order of "boneless wings" at a Buffalo Wild Wings (BWW) outlet in Mount Prospect, Illinois. At the time, he claims, he assumed the product was composed of ...

Three things are certain in life: death, taxes, and fraud. Add a new certainty for 2025: A new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Whoever the new director is (I’m willing to ...

“When we are tasked with reviewing claims brought under New Jersey law, we are not at liberty to ignore the directions of the New Jersey Supreme Court,” U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ...