Category: Scams & Your Rights
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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…
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FedEx, UPS and DHL are refunding tariff charges to customers while Target keeps its $994 million
FedEx, UPS and DHL have each told customers they will pass along tariff refunds once the federal government pays the carriers back. Target just banked $994 million from that same refund pool and is not cutting checks to shoppers with it. Both are legal, and both trace back to the same February court ruling —…
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The IRS is warning about fake calculators built around the new tax law’s deductions
Fake tax-refund calculators are circulating online this year, dressed up to look like legitimate tools for the new Working Families Tax Cuts deductions — and the IRS says some of them exist only to collect personal and financial information. The agency’s fact sheet on the scheme, FS-2026-09, lays out how the fake tools work and…
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Nearly 377,000 carbon monoxide detectors can fail to sound, and the maker has not agreed to recall them
A federal safety agency is telling nearly 377,000 households to unplug and throw away a combination natural gas and carbon monoxide detector immediately, warning that it may not sound an alarm during a life-threatening gas leak. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the warning on August 20 for the 4-in-1 Plug-In Natural Gas and…
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Nearly 1.6 million dozen eggs sold under Kroger and Simple Truth labels face a salmonella recall
A recall covering roughly 1.6 million dozen eggs remains in effect at the FDA’s highest risk level, and cartons tied to it could still be sitting in refrigerators across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico and Mississippi. The eggs, sold under the Kroger and Simple Truth store brands along with several smaller regional labels, carry…
