Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
Click Profit promised aspiring entrepreneurs a shortcut to e-commerce success. The FTC says it was a business-opportunity scheme, and its operator is now permanently barred from selling any kind of coaching program again.
Read the full report →Consumers seeking GLP-1 weight-loss prescriptions found misleading prices, fabricated testimonials, and membership terms that were anything but clear — all from a telehealth brand cashing in on the drug's popularity.
Read the full report →Roca Labs promised its product could shrink stomachs without surgery. When customers complained, some allegedly faced legal threats over contract clauses banning negative reviews.
Read the full report →The financing came with a catch homeowners weren't always told about clearly: unlike an ordinary loan, it attached directly to the property itself, through a sales team the company was supposed to be overseeing.
Read the full report →Nearly 3 million people subscribed to Care.com between 2019 and 2023, drawn in by inflated job listings and unsubstantiated earnings promises. Getting out, the FTC says, was deliberately harder than getting in.
Read the full report →Consumers were told they were about to be sued, their credit damaged, and their wages garnished — all over debts regulators say were never real. Two brothers now face a permanent ban from the industry.
Read the full report →Ganadores promised an 'infallible system' to replace a day job with real estate and e-commerce income. Consumers who paid tens of thousands of dollars mostly got crushing credit card debt instead.
Read the full report →Someone searching online for a specific addiction treatment provider found ads that looked like they led there. Regulators say those ads actually funneled callers to a different clinic entirely, at one of the most vulnerable moments in a person's life.
Read the full report →Pop-up warnings claimed a computer was infected. Behind the scenes, one payment company's own aggregated transactions masked how often customers were disputing the charges.
Read the full report →Someone searching online for help with addiction is often in crisis. Regulators say Evoke Wellness used that moment of vulnerability with search ads and telemarketing that didn't match what the clinic actually offered.
Read the full report →A judge called Boeing's crime 'the deadliest corporate crime in U.S. history.' The company still avoided a felony conviction, paying $1.1 billion instead after two years of failed plea deals and one mid-air door blowout.
Read the full report →The pitch was simple: hand over your student loan payments, and this company would take over your loans and get them forgiven. Regulators say the forgiveness never existed — and the company pocketed $20.3 million instead.
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