Affinion

For the past decade, a few clever companies have been running an online scheme that tricked consumers into joining so-called membership clubs and charged their credit cards without their consent. But thanks to Sen. John Rockefeller, the era of this $1.4 billion con is coming to an end.

Online marketing firms that bilked millions of consumers out of more than $1 billion will find it far harder to pick the pockets of online shoppers thanks to a new law passed by Congress. For years, millions of consumers have been opening their credit card statements and discovering small,...

We've looked at Webloyalty and Vertrue, two of the three companies under investigation by the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee after thousands of complaints about their billing and privacy practices. Now we take a look at the third, Affinion, of Norwalk, Conn. You may have encountered Affinion...

Earlier this month we warned you about the danger associated with cashing a check that appeared, to many consumers, to be a rebate check for their recent Snuggie purchase. Cashing the check enrolled the payee in Great Fun, a "20-year-old entertainment discount program offered by a third-party,...