High Risk and Problematic Products
Guidance and monitoring solutions to help platforms identify, assess, and manage products that pose elevated safety, compliance, or regulatory risks.
Some products pose higher safety or compliance risks for teams in charge of product monitoring or merchant monitoring. LegitScript helps online platforms and payments companies better understand the challenges and considerations of supporting higher-risk products. With our insights, trust and safety teams can develop better policies, make faster decisions, and reduce regulatory risk.
Supplements, which consistently draw regulatory scrutiny, are expected to exceed $218 billion in sales in the coming year. Companies with effective policies and enforcement mechanisms can take advantage of growing industries like this while staying compliant.
Upcoming Webinar
The Naughty List: Unwrapping the Holiday Scam Surge
Thursday, November 12 at 1 p.m. Eastern | 10 a.m. Pacific
60 Minutes
Holiday scams are set up months ahead and switch on in Q4, when record online spending gives them cover. Chargebacks land 60 to 120 days later, after the merchant is gone. LegitScript and a panel of risk and fraud experts break down fraudulent merchants, mass marketing fraud, and AI-driven fraud, plus the controls that still work this late.
Blog Articles
Latest Blog Article
The Next Nicotine Problem: What Trust and Safety Teams Aren’t Watching For
September 22, 2026
Nicotine products don’t look like nicotine products anymore, and that’s exactly the problem. Novel products are slipping past standard detection, while a backlogged FDA and a patchwork of state rules make consistent enforcement nearly impossible. A panel at Marketplace Risk’s New York conference dug into where the risk is hiding and what platforms can do.
Fraud by Prompt: Key Takeaways on Problematic Uses of AI at MRNYC
From deepfake product photos to AI-generated NCII, trust and safety teams are facing a threat that shifts faster than most policies can keep up with. At Marketplace Risk’s New York conference, a panel of experts broke down the evasion tactics bad actors are using right now, the gray areas that trip up even experienced teams, and what it actually takes to build a policy that holds up.
September 22, 2026
What’s Leaking Through Your Controls?
Even the best controls aren’t perfect. As evasion tactics evolve faster than controls can adapt, platforms must start asking more questions about the violative behavior they aren’t seeing and how they can better address a confluence of challenges to stay ahead of what’s next. Read more.
September 15, 2026
Guides
US, UK, and EU Product Safety Three-Market Comparison
This report compares the product
safety alert intelligence for three jurisdictions with some of the strictest product safety measures: the
United States, the European Union, and the United Kingdom. By understanding how these regulatory bodies differ and where they align on enforcement priorities, online platforms can better strategize to reduce risk.7 pages
EU and UK Product Safety Alert Intelligence
Updated for Q3 – This report, compiled by LegitScript, looks at product safety alert intelligence in the first three quarters of 2026 for the European Union and the United Kingdom, which have some of the strictest and most aggressive product safety measures. These regions often set trends for product safety policy globally and therefore offer insight into potential trends globally. Get it now.
8 pages
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Inside the FakeID Network: From Isolated Signal to Coordinated Disruption
What initially looked like a few isolated accounts promoting fake IDs on one of the world’s largest platforms ultimately turned out to be a massive international criminal network. Read our case study to learn how LegitScript identified the network, tracked its activity, and developed valuable intelligence to help clients quickly respond.
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Navigating the ENDS Market Report
This report, compiled by LegitScript, examines the regulatory landscape shaping the ENDS market and what it means for the payment providers underwriting and monitoring these merchants. Download it now for valuable insight and analysis on how to compliantly manage ENDS merchants.
6 pages
Webinars
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Thursday, November 12 at 1 p.m. Eastern | 10 a.m. Pacific
The Naughty List: Unwrapping the Holiday Scam Surge
Holiday scams are set up months ahead and switch on in Q4, when record online spending gives them cover. Chargebacks land 60 to 120 days later, after the merchant is gone. LegitScript and a panel of risk and fraud experts break down fraudulent merchants, mass marketing fraud, and AI-driven fraud, plus the controls that still work this late.
On Demand
ENDS Regulatory Updates: What Payments and Platforms Need to Know About Changes to Vaping Laws
Only 48 e-cigarettes hold FDA authorization out of thousands on the market. Join LegitScript to unpack the flavor ban reversal, PMTA process, and PACT Act rules shaping ENDS compliance for payments companies and platforms.
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On Demand
Connecting the Dots: How Investigation Teams Build Networks and Disrupt Criminal Ecosystems
This session from the 2026 San Francisco Marketplace Risk Management Conference features a panel discussion on how investigation teams build network intelligence to disrupt criminal ecosystems. The speakers, including representatives from TikTok and LegitScript, explore the complexities of identifying coordinated bad actors.
