Every investigation we've published, newest first — each one built on primary documents and classified under our evidence standard.
Not all credential fraud comes from outside forgers. Sometimes the institution issuing the degree is itself the source of the fraud — as seen in a case where India's Supreme Court found a single university had issued roughly 8,000 fraudulent certificates.
Read the full report →Roomster purchased fake app store reviews to inflate its ratings and attract users while knowingly allowing scammers to post fraudulent apartment listings on its platform — listings used to collect deposits from renters who then discovered the apartments did not exist or were not available to rent.
Read the full report →The third edition of our running enforcement record: a $319 million elite-university price-fixing settlement, a $140 million timeshare-exit judgment, and a wave of subscription-cancellation cases across entirely unrelated industries.
Read the full report →Health IQ attracted applicants with promises of discounted life insurance premiums for healthy lifestyles — collecting detailed health, activity, and medical history data during underwriting — then shared that sensitive information with marketing partners without the clear disclosure and consent that its privacy representations had led applicants to expect.
Read the full report →National Consumer Center operated a network of online surveys and sweepstakes requiring consumers to submit detailed personal information to claim prizes that were either unavailable, fictitious, or awarded to so few participants that the sweepstakes was effectively a personal data collection scheme operating under a prize-based pretext.
Read the full report →Pinnacle Waste Services discharged leachate from solid waste collection and transfer operations into waterways in violation of its discharge permits, then submitted falsified monitoring data to state environmental regulators that concealed the violations.
Read the full report →Instant Brands received consumer complaints about a pressure cooker lid that could open while the pot was still pressurized — causing scalding burns — and delayed reporting the defect to safety regulators while continuing to sell the product, then used recall communications that downplayed the burn risk.
Read the full report →A separate, smaller network from the one Kerala Police dismantled: Kanpur investigators say a two-man operation ran a 'home delivery' service for forged PhD, law, and pharmacy certificates, catering to candidates who never sat an exam.
Read the full report →A federal audit of agilon Health's Medicare Advantage risk adjustment submissions identified diagnosis codes entered into member records that were not supported by clinical documentation — a pattern that inflated risk-adjusted capitation payments from Medicare.
Read the full report →The FTC alleged Cox Media Group and two marketing firms sold small businesses on an AI product that supposedly listened to nearby conversations to target ads — when in reality it was reselling ordinary email lists at a markup.
Read the full report →Quincy Bioscience marketed Prevagen as a clinically tested solution for age-related memory problems — while its own clinical trial showed the supplement performed no better than a placebo on the cognitive measures the product was sold to address, a fact the company did not prominently disclose in its advertising.
Read the full report →Care.com overstated the number of available caregiving jobs to job seekers and displayed postings for jobs that no longer existed or had never been genuine openings — driving paid subscription upgrades from workers who paid to contact employers about positions that were not available.
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