post-transaction marketing

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,...

Webloyalty, a leading discount club marketer that partners with popular retail sites to offer memberships to consumers -- including Ticketmaster, Orbitz and Shutterfly -- agreed to refund $5.2 million to New Yorkers who the state's attorney general says were duped by its hidden fees. An...

Online background checker Intelius duped hundreds of thousands of consumers through deceptive advertising tactics that earned it more than $50 million in lucrative commissions from third-party vendors, a two-year investigation by the Washington State Attorney General's office has found. The...