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In an attempt to crack down on the organized posting of phony positive Web-based reviews, New York's attorney general announced a settlement with Lifestyle Lift -- a firm that had littered cyberspace with glowing testimony from pretend satisfied customers.Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo said the...

Morgan Stanley Capital Group agreed to pay $2.3 million to settle accusations that a gasoline supplier it owns gouged consumers last fall during Hurricane Ike, Florida officials announced. The settlement is the largest in Florida history and might be the largest ever, they said.Typically, small...

California filed a $222 million lawsuit against the owner of 22 Midas Muffler shops after uncover agents discovered a "massive" scheme in which consumers were charged for unneeded repairs, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced."These Midas shops were running a massive...

Texas officials filed charges against two Californians operating a business under the name Compliance Services that solicits money from small business owners in the name of getting them to comply with the law.Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott won a temporary restraining order preventing Compliance...

Grandparents from coast to coast are getting shaken down and being conned into believing their grandchildren are being held in a Canadian jail and need cash to make bail. As unlikely as this scam might seem, it just keeps coming back -- something that happens when people pay up.The Attorney...

For five years, state inspectors in Arizona went into Wal-Mart stores to check whether the prices paid at the register matched the price they were supposed to be sold for. The results weren't pretty: Wal-Mart flunked more than half of the 976 inspections.""In today's tough economy, consumers need...

As the economy struggled and the housing market lost its massive gains -- taking homeowners' equity down with it -- scams to help consumers avoid foreclosure have been booming. Crackdowns here and there seem to have done little to dissuade others from preying on people in their most dire...

Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal told WalletPop his office has launched an investigation into controversial Webloyalty.com -- a company you might not have heard of, but might find charges for on your credit card statements. . The company operates Reservation Rewards and other...