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
ENDS Regulatory Updates: What Payments and Platforms Need to Know About Changes to Vaping Laws
Tuesday, September 29 at 1 p.m. Eastern | 10 a.m. Pacific
60 Minutes
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.
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
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
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EU and UK Product Safety Alert Intelligence
This report, compiled by LegitScript, looks at product safety alert intelligence in the first half 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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Top 10 Problematic Products for 2026
Problematic products are evolving rapidly, creating new compliance and consumer safety risks for payments companies and online platforms. From unauthorized peptides to emerging illicit substances, knowing what to watch for is essential to avoiding regulatory scrutiny and reputational harm. This guide highlights the top 10 problematic products for 2026 and explains how to recognize and manage these risks.
26 pages
Webinars
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Tuesday, September 29 at 1 p.m. Eastern | 10 a.m. Pacific
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.
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On Demand
Trust and Safety Isn’t a Cost Center: It’s a Growth Engine
This session from the 2026 San Francisco Marketplace Risk Management Conference covers the role of trust and safety teams as a “growth engine” and how professionals in this field can navigate internal challenges and perceptions. Watch now on demand.
