Category: Scams & Your Rights
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Amazon expands Prime refunds to members who used 11 to 20 benefits
Amazon will begin sending automatic Prime refunds on October 1, 2026, to millions of additional customers who used between 11 and 20 Prime benefits in a one-year period, the Federal Trade Commission said September 17. A federal court approved a revised order in the FTC’s 2025 Prime settlement that widens eligibility, raises the maximum payment…
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CMS canceled 315,000 Marketplace enrollments tied to unauthorized coverage
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services canceled approximately 315,000 unauthorized enrollments in the federal health insurance Marketplace, a move that affected more than 760,000 people. The agency said on September 22 that the cancellations, which took effect August 31, 2026, are expected to return roughly $2.2 billion in taxpayer-funded premium subsidies. CMS paired the…
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Nissan’s lending arm is mailing refunds to overcharged New York lease buyers through 2026
Checks are going out in New York one audited dealership at a time, and the company writing them is the lender that owned the cars all along. Nissan Motor Acceptance Company LLC, the captive finance arm that buys Nissan leases from dealers and holds title to the vehicles, agreed to refund every New Yorker who…
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Ring is sending a third round of payments to camera owners by Zelle
Settlement money has a habit of going uncollected, and the doorbell camera case is proving it. The money Ring was ordered to pay over its handling of customer video is reaching camera owners for a third time, and this round arrives by Zelle rather than by check or PayPal, aimed squarely at the people who…
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The Education Department says it will fully forgive loans for deceived University of Phoenix students
A decade after the advertisements ran, the paperwork is still moving. The U.S. Department of Education has determined that borrowers who enrolled at the University of Phoenix because of the school’s claims about job opportunities with big-name employers are entitled to have their federal student loans wiped out entirely, not trimmed. The department is still…
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau lists 28 cases still paying money back to consumers
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau keeps a public register of the enforcement cases whose money is still moving, and that register currently runs to 28 ongoing cases against 49 closed ones. A few of the names are familiar from television commercials and monthly statements. Most are not, which is precisely why the list exists: the…
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The IRS is warning about promoters selling tribal tax credits that do not exist
Most tax scams borrow the name of something real. This one borrows the name of something that was never enacted at all. The Internal Revenue Service has issued a public warning about promoters selling what they call Tribal Tax Credits, telling taxpayers, tribal communities, businesses and tax professionals that no such federal credit exists and…
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A Jamaican sweepstakes ring leader got eight years and must forfeit $6,166,227 taken from older Americans
A federal judge in White Plains, New York, closed the books on a sweepstakes operation that spent a decade working the same trick on retirees: call a stranger, tell them they had already won, and collect the “fees” before any prize could ship. The scheme ran phone banks and text campaigns out of Jamaica for…
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FinWise Bank data breach claims close October 29, with documented losses paid up to $5,000
Anyone whose personal records sat inside FinWise Bank’s systems during a 2024 security failure is now working against a firm calendar set in a Salt Lake City federal court. The bank, its holding company, and a lending partner agreed to resolve a class-action lawsuit rather than keep fighting it, and the resulting fund now runs…
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CVS agreed to pay up to $20.5 million over what shoppers searched on its site, with claims closing November 16
A Florida circuit court has signed off on notice for a privacy settlement that traces back to something as routine as typing a drugstore item into a search bar. CVS Pharmacy and the digital advertising firm Criteo Corp. are resolving a lawsuit alleging that terms typed into CVS’s website and app search bar were captured…