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BEUC - with 12 member organisations from 11 countries - today filed a complaint with the European Commission and European consumer protection authorities against ENGIE, Eni Plenitude, Shell, and TotalEnergies for misleading green claims.
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BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation, together with 13 consumer groups from 13 countries (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands), conducted an evidence-gathering to document the widespread financial scams on Meta, TikTok and Google as well as the limited corrective measures platforms take to prevent their circulation. The screenshots were taken between December 2025 and March 2026. Consumer groups collected 893 examples.
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On 21 May 2026, BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation – together with 29 members from 27 countries – filed complaints with the European Commission and competent national authorities against Meta, TikTok and Google for failing to address the proliferation of financial fraudulent ads on their platforms as the EU’s Digital Services Act requires from them.
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Consumers spend more time online and increasingly rely on digital payment services in their daily lives. As their digital presence grows, so do fraudulent practices, with online advertising emerging as a major vector for scams. Whether watching videos, following friends, scrolling or reading the news, consumers are routinely exposed to increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes, leading not only to financial harm – i.e. in 2024, consumers suffered financial losses up to EUR 4.2 billion – but also to a loss of trust in digital and financial markets.
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BEUC – The European Consumer Organisation, wrote to the European Commission to inform that, together
with 29 consumer organisations from 27 countries, we are filing complaints against Meta, TikTok, and Google with the European Commission and the competent Digital Services Coordinators, pursuant to Article 53 of EU Regulation 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act- DSA).
with 29 consumer organisations from 27 countries, we are filing complaints against Meta, TikTok, and Google with the European Commission and the competent Digital Services Coordinators, pursuant to Article 53 of EU Regulation 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act- DSA).
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BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation, together with 13 consumer groups from 13 countries (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands), conducted an evidence-gathering to document the widespread financial scams on Meta, TikTok and Google as well as the limited corrective measures platforms take to prevent their circulation. The screenshots were taken between December 2025 and March 2026. Consumer groups collected 893 examples. This annex does not intend to provide the exhaustive list of ads, but highlights key examples collected per organisation.