United States v. MyLife.com, Inc. and Jeffrey Tinsley
Enforcement actionC.D. Cal. No. 2:20-cv-06692 · Filed Jul 27, 2020 · Consent decree Dec 15, 2021
- Statutes
FTC Act, ROSCA, FCRA, TSR
- Consumer redress
$21 million
- Total judgments
$33.9 million · $16M corporate portion partially suspended
- Tinsley personally
$5 million · permanent negative-option ban
The DOJ, on behalf of the FTC, alleged MyLife tricked consumers with teaser background reports implying arrest, criminal, and sex-offender records that didn't exist, then trapped them in hard-to-cancel auto-renewing subscriptions. The consent decree imposes the monetary judgments, a permanent ban on deceptive negative-option marketing covering both the company and Tinsley individually, and FCRA compliance monitoring. No settlement document or coverage we could read mentions Reunion.com by name, but the decree binds Mylife.com, Inc. (which did business as Reunion.com Inc., per its 2022 bankruptcy petition) and Tinsley.














