Category: Scams & Your Rights
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The FTC is depositing withheld tip money to Amazon Flex drivers by Zelle, after returning more than $60.6 million
The Federal Trade Commission has started sending a new round of payments to Amazon Flex drivers whose tips the company secretly withheld nearly a decade ago, this time depositing the money directly through Zelle instead of mailing a check. The Zelle payments are going to drivers who never cashed the checks sent during two earlier…
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Two months of Social Security deposits stay protected when a garnishment order arrives
A federal rule that has been in force since 2011, and was tightened in 2013, requires banks and credit unions to automatically shield roughly two months of Social Security, Supplemental Security Income and several other federal benefit deposits the moment a garnishment order lands on an account. The shield is automatic: no court filing, no…
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An appeal has frozen Capital One’s $425 million savings payout, possibly past a year
A federal judge signed off on a $425 million settlement in April 2026 to resolve claims that Capital One let its older 360 Savings account fall far behind the interest rate it paid on the newer 360 Performance Savings account. Current and former accountholders were told a payout was coming automatically, with no claim form…
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Tyson and Hormel will pay pork buyers $117 million, and claims close October 29
Five of the country’s biggest pork processors have agreed to pay a combined $117 million to settle a long-running lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to inflate the price of bacon, chops, ribs and other raw pork sold in grocery stores nationwide. The deal covers people who bought pork for their own household, not restaurants or…
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Prosecutors say a Texas attorney took $1.45 million from about 20 investors and returned $789,000
A 70-year-old attorney in Grand Prairie, Texas, was arrested this week on federal charges built around a pitch familiar to a lot of retirement savers: buying liens on properties with unpaid taxes. Prosecutors say David Thomas Gilchrist collected roughly $1.45 million from about 20 people between April 2023 and January 2026 and sent back only…
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A court froze a credit repair operation the FTC says took nearly $200 million
A federal judge in Arizona has temporarily shut down a credit repair operation that, according to the Federal Trade Commission, pulled in nearly $200 million by posing as debt collectors and creditors. The FTC says the operation, built around a company called Credit Glory, used paid search ads to reach people already worried about a…
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Three marketing firms will pay $930,000 for telling advertisers they could listen through your phone
Three advertising and marketing firms are paying a combined $930,000 after the Federal Trade Commission determined they told advertisers their technology could listen in on conversations through people’s smart devices to target local ads, a capability the agency says never actually existed. The finalized order, dated August 27, 2026, closes out a case against Georgia-based…
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Tesla is recalling 20,349 cars for headlights that are too bright, and there is no fix yet
Tesla has told federal safety regulators it is recalling 20,349 Model 3 and Model Y vehicles because their low-beam headlights shine brighter than federal law allows, and the company does not yet have a repair ready to offer. For anyone driving one of the affected cars, or facing its headlights from the other lane at…
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Toyota is recalling 508,354 Camry Hybrids for a dashboard that can go dark and kill the hazard lights
Toyota is telling more than half a million Camry Hybrid owners that their dashboard can go dark the moment they start the car, taking the turn signals, hazard lights and seatbelt chime down with it. The automaker has filed a formal recall covering the 2025 and 2026 model years, all built at its Kentucky plant,…
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Walmart is recalling 165,250 dressers a second time because liquidators kept selling the recalled ones
Mainstays nine-drawer fabric dressers sold at Walmart are back under a federal recall notice — about 165,250 of them — and the complaint this time isn’t about a defect in the furniture. It’s about what happened after the first recall: the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission says liquidation companies kept selling drawers that Walmart had…