Marketplace

Marketplace investigates the murky world of home heating deals to reveal how consumers who sign up for savings are getting surprises instead, locked into onerous loans that come with broken promises of rebates, energy savings and free service – as calls grow for better consumer protection.

Marketplace investigates how much information you're giving away when playing mobile games, and where that information ends up.  We uncover the methods app developers use to keep kids playing for as long as possible – and expose loopholes in the laws meant to protect children's privacy.

Marketplace uncovers sex-for-rent ads online that target young women. Experts call these arrangements illegal and exploitative. We respond to more than a dozen ads, revealing the disturbing trend and confronting those involved.

Joining forces with top scambusters to take on scammers from around the world, the team cracks into networks of organized crime groups, watching some through their own security cameras, and confronts fraudsters in real time.