payments
Every record this desk has filed under payments, newest first, each with the number of sources it can still show you.
A payment processor will pay $12 million. The useful part is the four kinds of merchant it is now banned from touching.
The FTC filed today against 5967 Ventures LLC, trading as Humboldt Merchant Services, alleging it processed payments for more than 1,000 shell merchants fronting for companies running unauthorized billing scams — including Legion Media, which the FTC shut down in 2024. The settlement is $12 million and a permanent ban. The part worth reading is the banned-conduct list: four categories of merchant Humboldt may never process for again, which read together as a description of what a scam storefront looks like from inside a payments company. The complaint also puts a number on the tell — chargebacks at nearly ten times the rate card networks consider excessive — and names two evasion techniques by their industry terms. The order is stipulated and unsigned; the case is pending.
Also filed underftcfraudconsumer-protectionenforcement
July 21 case desk: a marketplace and its payment rail are two different accountability records.
Hugin adds the DOJ's July 1 non-prosecution agreements with Alibaba and AUS Merchant Services to the Consumer Protection Enforcement file. The coordinated $600 million resolution has two entity-specific agreements, distinct compliance duties, and a posture that must not be flattened into a criminal conviction.
Also filed undercase-deskconsumer-protectionjustice-departmentmarketplace-safetycomplianceevidence-posturesource-receipts
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