Marketing Fraud

See: Phishing Scam.

Remember all those letters/emails you used to get from the Prince of Nigeria and his loving Royal Family? They begged you for $5k to unlock a few mil, of which you'd get half. A few old people fell for this ruse, but most laughed and then felt sorry that people would be so desperate and have such low self-esteem that they would try to do this for a living. Then they thought about how corrupt Nigeria must be for so much of its population to engage in this stuff. Then they went and had dinner.

Yeah, we Americans are short-term, annoyance-based thinkers.

Anyway, marketing fraud runs when you are lied to about what a product can or would or should do to you. Lots of companies exaggerate how great their products are (and no, Shmoop does not cure cancer). But outright fraud? Yeah. If you find it, call the FBI, or at least the Consumer Protection Agency, and put their butts in jail.