TL;DR Stratics Networks and its network of partners blasted over 23 million illegal ringless voicemail robocalls to Americans between August and November 2020 alone, targeting people on the Do Not Call Registry without their consent. The “debt relief” program these…
Investigation • Disability Rights • Corporate Fraud • FTC Enforcement They Sold Disabled People a Lie and Called It Compliance How accessiBe planted fake reviews, made promises its software could never keep, and charged disabled communities for the illusion of…
Investigative Report • For-Profit Education • FTC Lawsuit Grand Canyon University Buried Students in Debt They Never Agreed To Pay Sourced from: FTC First Amended Complaint, CV-23-02711 • Filed September 5, 2024 TL;DR Grand Canyon University (GCU) told students they…
TL;DR Match Group, the company behind Match.com, Tinder, OKCupid, and 42 other dating platforms controlling 25% of the U.S. dating market, ran at least five distinct deceptive schemes against its own paying users starting in 2013. Match Group sent users…
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Investigations / Financial Fraud / Pyramid Schemes They Took $1.24 Billion From People Who Couldn’t Afford to Lose It The FTC and State of Nevada have sued IM Mastery Academy, its founders, and its top earners for running a pyramid…
Death Threats and a $25 Million Digital Gold Rush TL;DR The Federal Trade Commission is suing a web of companies operating as “Ascend” and its co-founders, William Michael Basta and Jeremy Kenneth Leung, for running a massive business opportunity scam…
EvilCorporations.com Investigates They Called for Help.These Companies Lied to Them. Filed: June 24, 2025 | Source: FTC v. Mercury Marketing et al. | Case No. 1:25-cv-02021 TL;DR Mercury Marketing ran Google ads impersonating hundreds of real addiction treatment facilities, redirecting…
Investigation: Payment Infrastructure Paddle.com Ran the Register for Tech Support Scammers Filed June 20, 2025 · Source: FTC Stipulated Order, Case 1:25-cv-01886 · EvilCorporations.com Investigative Desk TL;DR The FTC charged Paddle.com Market Limited and Paddle.com, Inc. with assisting deceptive tech…
EvilCorporations.com — Investigative Report Two Ad Giants Tried to Merge and Own the Information Pipeline FTC Complaint Issued — June 2025 — Source: Federal Trade Commission TL;DR Omnicom agreed to buy rival ad giant IPG for $13.5 billion (enough to…