Category: Scams & Your Rights
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A Boca Raton man ran a $50 million Ponzi scheme from federal prison and was sentenced to 20 years
Investors in a Florida real estate company were told their money was backed by a portfolio worth as much as $450 million. It did not exist. Neither, in a meaningful sense, did the man they thought was running things — the person directing the account had been in federal custody since 2020, serving a sentence…
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Kroger will pay $17 million over inflated prescription copays, and most claims need no receipts
The copay a pharmacy collects at the counter is supposed to be calculated off the price the pharmacy actually charges the public. A long-running lawsuit against Kroger says the company reported something different to insurers — and that insured customers paid more at the register as a result. Kroger has agreed to put $17 million…
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Doxim data-breach victims can claim about $100 with no proof through October 13
If your bank or credit union sent you a data-breach notice a couple of years ago, there may be a check with your name on it — and claiming it takes minutes, not paperwork. A $5.5 million settlement over a Doxim data breach is paying class members an estimated $100 flat, with no documentation required,…
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More than 41,000 Taleco baby swings and jumpers are recalled for a full refund
Parents and grandparents who bought a baby swing or jumper from Taleco Gear in the past few years should stop using it now. Federal regulators have announced a recall of more than 41,000 of the units over fall, impact, and strangulation hazards, following dozens of reports of the products failing. The remedy is a full…
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A Maryland woman got 70 months for a romance-scam front company whose victims sold homes and drained retirement accounts
The Justice Department put the damage in a single sentence: “Many victims drained their retirement accounts, sold their homes and vehicles, returned to work after retirement, and borrowed substantial sums from friends and family.” That is a description of households, not of a defendant, and it is the part of this case worth reading twice.…
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Two children needed surgery after swallowing magnets, and 213,500 toy cube sets are being recalled for a full refund
There is a fair chance one of these sets is already in your house, in a bin under a bed or on the closet shelf with the wrapping paper. Goody King magnetic building cubes sold on Amazon between January 2024 and July 2026 for somewhere between $17 and $50, which made them an easy gift…
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Bank of America customers who got a notice about the 2023 MOVEit breach can claim $100 with no proof by October 8
Somewhere in a drawer, in a folder of things you meant to deal with, or long since thrown out, there may be a letter from Ernst & Young telling you that your personal information turned up in a 2023 data breach. That piece of mail is the eligibility key to a $100 payment. It carries…
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A woman who helped collect gold bars from about 300 older victims in at least 37 states was sentenced this month
The knock comes at a time you agreed to. The person on the step is calm and polite and knows your name, and you hand over a package of gold bars you bought that week with cash pulled from your own bank account. A voice on the phone spent days explaining that a government courier…
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Lands’ End data-breach victims can claim $60 with no proof through October 22
Most class-action settlements are built to be annoying. They want the receipt, the bank statement, the log of hours you spent on hold, and most people give up somewhere between the second and third document. The Lands’ End data-breach settlement includes an option that asks for none of that, and it stays open until October…
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An Atlanta man was convicted of laundering $2.7 million stolen from romance and online scam victims
Romance and online scams do not end when a victim wires the money. The stolen funds have to be moved, hidden, and pushed overseas so no one can claw them back, and that job falls to a network of people who launder the cash. A recent federal conviction pulls back the curtain on that machinery,…
