The Washington State Office of the Attorney General has won over $8 million in penalties in a trial against a repeat scammer.

Despite significant insurance rate hikes last year, Washington residents may not get much relief when their policies are up for renewal again. In an interview with The Seattle Times last week, ...

News about Consumer Protection, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Scammers are posing as the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Team.

The Council and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement to update, simplify and facilitate the existing alternative dispute resolution (ADR) framework, with the aim of making ...

(The Center Square) - Democratic legislators are moving forward with a bill intended to curb excessive fees levied by financial institutions when a customer has insufficient funds to cover a ...

As to whether it would compromise the availability of services, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, has asserted that in most cases, profit from these kinds of fees far exceed the cost ...

The WA ScamNet team has warned consumers that rental scammers are impersonating the state’s Consumer Protection using fake bond emails and trademarks, tricking tenants into upfront payments for ...

The WA ScamNet team has warned consumers that rental scammers are impersonating the state’s Consumer Protection using fake bond emails and trademarks, tricking tenants into upfront payments for ...

The WA ScamNet team at Consumer Protection is hearing from increasing numbers of victims who, after paying upfront for non-existent rental properties, are receiving follow-up emails from scammers ...

West Australians looking for rentals are being warned to be extra careful due to a rising number of scammers impersonating government agencies demanding payments for fake bonds. According to Consumer ...

Albany lawmakers scaled down a consumer protection measure before concluding their annual session and walked away from proposed reforms to the live-event ticket market that could have capped fees ...