Category: Scams & Your Rights
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A Grubhub refund sent through PayPal must be accepted within 30 days rather than the 90 days a check allows
Grubhub drivers and diners who receive a refund from the Federal Trade Commission face two different deadlines, depending on how the money arrives. A PayPal payment has to be accepted within 30 days, while a mailed check has to be cashed within 90. The FTC’s page for the program counts 640,038 payments worth more than…
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Amway’s distributors have no claim process yet for the FTC’s largest ever payout against a multilevel marketer
No form exists, no website has been announced and no deadline has been set for anyone hoping to collect from the largest sum the Federal Trade Commission has ever sought from a multilevel marketing company. On September 17, 2026, the agency announced a proposed order under which Amway Corp. and two affiliates would pay $225…
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Amazon’s next Prime refund round covers customers who used 11 to 20 benefits in one year
A new round of automatic Amazon Prime refunds is scheduled to reach customers who were left out of the earlier payments. The Federal Trade Commission announced on September 17, 2026 that Amazon will begin issuing payments to millions of additional consumers who used between 11 and 20 Prime benefits during a one-year period. The revised…
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A court ordered $15.7 million in restitution in a trading scheme, and a dead defendant’s estate is giving up his house
A federal court in Florida has ordered a Louisiana man and an Arkansas woman to pay $15,732,455 in restitution, or about $15.7 million, for a trading scheme called Fundsz, and the estate of a third defendant who has died is giving up his personal residence. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced the order on September…
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A former bank chief executive was sentenced to nine years and four months over a $25.3 million promissory-note scheme
Tomás Niembro Concha, the 64-year-old former chief executive of Nodus International Bank, was sentenced on September 21 to 112 months in federal prison, which works out to nine years and four months, followed by three years of supervised release. He pleaded guilty on March 19 to conspiring to commit wire fraud and to violating U.S.…
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Five more generic drugmakers put up $96 million, with claims open to March 8
Claims are open until March 8, 2027 against a $96 million pool that New York Attorney General Letitia James says her office and its partners have secured from five generic drug manufacturers: Apotex, Heritage, Bausch, Lannett and Glenmark Pharmaceuticals USA. The money comes from settlements of a price-fixing case involving more than 100 generic drugs,…
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Sandoz will pay $400 million over inflated prices on more than 100 generic drugs
Sandoz Inc. and its Fougera Pharmaceuticals unit have agreed to a $400 million settlement with a coalition of state attorneys general over a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids on more than 100 generic prescription drugs. The deal, announced October 1, reaches consumers in 48 states plus Washington, D.C., the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto…
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Nearly 30% of people who lost money to scams last year were first contacted on social media
Scams that start on a social media feed account for a large slice of what American consumers say they lost. The Federal Trade Commission reports that nearly 30% of consumers who reported losing money to scammers in 2025 said they were first contacted on social media platforms. The figure appears in a September 24 notice…
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Pork overcharge claims close October 29, and the class covers only 23 states and the District of Columbia
A pork price-fixing settlement worth $117.065 million across five paying defendants stops accepting claims after October 29, 2026, which is 27 days from today. Anyone who bought pork for personal consumption between June 28, 2014 and June 30, 2018 can file, provided the purchases fall inside the jurisdictions the class covers. That jurisdiction limit is…
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Anyone who rented an apartment priced by RealPage software since October 2018 has until January 29 to file a claim
Renters across the United States and its territories have until January 29, 2027 to file a claim in the RealPage rental-software antitrust settlement, which sets aside $359,925,000 for people who paid rent on a lease at a property that used RealPage pricing tools. The claim window opened ahead of a court hearing that has not…