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LegitScript & Special Guest Marketplace Risk Panel Recap: How to Stay Ahead of Global Regulations and Trends: Using Deep Intelligence to Shape Policy and Mitigate Risk

By LegitScript Folks

on June 24, 2025

At Marketplace Risk, experts tackled the challenges of content moderation and platform responsibility, focusing on drug-related content, evolving evasion tactics, and the balance between AI and human oversight. Transparency and proactive safety measures took center stage. Listen below to an excerpt of the panel discussion held this year by the LegitScript team at the Marketplace…
Key Takeaways from LegitScript’s Webinar: Navigating Risks and Regulations in Online Abortion Pill Sales

By LegitScript Folks

on June 17, 2025

In our recent webinar on online abortion pill sales, experts outlined how recent legal changes are reshaping access to medication abortion and highlighted emerging threats facing online platforms and payment service providers. Read our key takeaways from the presentation.
LegitScript Marketplace Risk Panel Recap: The Dark Side of Weight-Loss Drugs: Regulation, Risk, and Red Flags

By LegitScript Folks

on June 05, 2025

Dive into the dark side of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs in this Marketplace Risk panel featuring LegitScript experts. Learn how compounding pharmacies, unregulated sellers, and social media influencers are fueling safety risks, enforcement concerns, and regulatory blind spots around popular drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy.
Tainted Nutraceuticals: Hidden Ingredients, Real Risks

By Erin Feebeck

on April 09, 2025

Merchants are facing increasing scrutiny for selling nutraceuticals tainted with harmful ingredients, which poses a challenge to payment processors trying to keep their portfolios free of dangerous products. Keep reading to learn more about the latest problematic products.
Is Kava Legal and Safe? What Merchants and Payment Providers Should Know

By Justin Ridderbos

on April 01, 2025

As consumers seek natural products with the same efficacy as prescription medications, they may quickly find themselves trying to navigate a landscape of inconsistent regulations and potentially misleading marketing. Among these alternative products is kava — a popular elixir with complicated regulations.
Inside the Minds of Serial Transaction Launderers: How They Evade Detection and What You Can Do About It

By LegitScript Folks

on March 27, 2025

Transaction laundering isn’t just an occasional headache—it’s an evolving, persistent threat to payment ecosystems. In our latest webinar, LegitScript dove deep into the world of serial transaction launderers: how they operate, why they reoffend, and what risk teams need to know to catch them.
LegitScript Gives You the Skinny on New Weight Loss Drugs

By Thea Le Fevre

on January 06, 2025

Discover how the booming GLP-1 weight loss drug market is creating challenges across e-commerce, payments, and social media.
Why Nicotine Pouches Are Drawing So Much Scrutiny

By David Khalaf

on December 02, 2024

Understand why the FDA is cracking down on certain nicotine pouches and learn what to watch out for.
GLP-1 Shortage Prompts Surge of Risky Weight Loss Supplements

By Andrea Baker

on July 22, 2024

Despite the high demand for GLP-1 drugs, the cost of these medications is prohibitively expensive for many people. As a result, a slew of merchants are entering the market offering alternative products such as supplements and other healthcare products for weight loss, many of which pose serious health threats to consumers. Weight loss supplements are…
GLP-1 Sales Online: What You Need to Know

By LegitScript Folks

on July 17, 2024

Recent LegitScript data reveals the skyrocketing promotion of both GLP-1 medications and reported ads associated with selling compounded GLP-1 medications (press release). LegitScript tackles the sale of problematic healthcare products as well as more than 60 other high-risk categories — including counterfeits, weapons, and online gambling — with a multi-pronged approach that employs big data,…

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