Is penalized for deceiving consumers — sourced records

Corporate accountability Scope: Companies Certified live check Catalog 3.38.22

A regulator or court finds that the company used deceptive advertising, false claims, hidden charges, or another documented consumer deception.

1 company with evidence it happened

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Issue areaCorporate accountability
Subject scopeCompanies
Subjects listed1
Live statusCertified live check
Person applicabilityPerson Analogue
Person analogueLeader is found to have defrauded consumers
Evidence floorAdjudicated
Source inventory statusWired, with matches
Inventory sourcesenforcer press releases and cited news, read by the model and verified
Catalog version3.38.22

Qualifies: A final regulator or court order, adjudicated finding, guilty plea, or completed settlement naming the company and deceptive practice. A deceptive commercial practice counts whoever its direct targets are: retail customers, users, platform workers and recruits, or prospective ones, when a consumer-protection authority brings the enforcement -- an FTC settlement over exaggerated earnings offered to prospective drivers qualifies the same way one over retail advertising does.

Excludes: An allegation, pending lawsuit, subjective criticism of marketing, or an ordinary pricing dispute. Investor or shareholder securities-fraud conduct without a deceptive commercial practice directed at customers, users, platform workers, recruits, or prospective ones.

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