According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in 2023, people reported losing $10 billion to scams, with phone scams causing the highest per-person loss.

To The Watchdog, it marked the Golden Era of consumer protection. It was as if the staffers that enforce rules and laws ...

Robocalls and texts are not only annoying, they are costly! Unsuspecting consumers lose billions of dollars to fraud every year. How can you prevent it from happening to you or a loved one? Consumer ...

Calls and texts from scammers are not only annoying, they’re also costly, with unsuspecting consumers losing billions of dollars to fraud every year. Consumer Reports has some new advice on how to ...

It was a delight to see the public discourse on advertising regulation rebooted recently. The reboot, admirably, was not ...

The man she met on a dating app gave her promises of a romantic relationship while asking her to send money as, he claimed, ...

I haven’t seen anyone pronounce what I’m about to say. The weeks before the inauguration of a new president of the United ...

The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria, ARCON, has been in the news recently over the N1 million violation fee it ...

The agency was established under the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in the aftermath of the subprime-mortgage crisis, during which reckless lending by the mortgage ...

As United States President Donald Trump continues to threaten Canada’s economic and political sovereignty, some observers ...

DraftKings rose 5% after the company reported a wider-than-expected fourth-quarter loss but said it was raising its revenue guidance for 2025 to between $6.3 billion to $6.6 billion, compared with its ...