Tag: deceptive/misleading conduct

Riverside Payments Inc., its affiliate Cascade Equipment Leasing LLC and their operators will pay $600,000 to resolve FTC and Washington state allegations that the firms deceived small businesses by falsely promising to save them money on payment processing services and making it nearly impossible to cancel.

In October 2026, the Federal Trade Commission, the People of the State of California by and through the Los Angeles County Counsel and San Francisco City Attorney, and the Attorneys General of the States of Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Utah, filed a lawsuit against Toast Inc. and affiliated entities, alleging the restaurant software and fintech company saddles restaurants with hidden fees, unauthorized fees and unwanted add-ons; fails to deliver on its customer support promises; and makes it difficult to cancel its services.

The FTC and seven states sued Ticketmaster and Live Nation alleging they deceived artists and consumers by engaging in bait-and-switch pricing through advertising lower prices for tickets than what consumers must pay to purchase tickets; deceptively claimed to impose strict limits on the number of tickets that consumers could purchase for an event, even though ticket brokers routinely and substantially exceeded those limits; and sold millions of tickets, often at much higher cost to consumers, on its resale platform that those brokers obtained in excess of artists’ ticket limits.

FleetCor and its CEO will pay $100 million to settle a FTC administrative action alleging that the company charged its customers, who overwhelmingly are small businesses, undisclosed fees in connection with their use of fuel cards that FleetCor falsely promised businesses would save them money.