{"id":149792,"date":"2026-03-02T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149792\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T16:17:09","slug":"top-10-consumer-complaints-in-new-york-for-2025-revealed-by-ags-office-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/149792\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Consumer Complaints in New York for 2025 Revealed by AG’s Office | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ALBANY, N.Y. (WKTV) — New York\u2019s top consumer complaints in 2025 included high prices for essential goods, housing problems, bank fraud and online privacy violations.<\/p>\n

The Office of the Attorney General released its annual list at the start of National Consumer Protection Week.<\/p>\n

Retail sales emerged as the leading issue with 4,809 complaints, mainly due to problems with online purchases, deceptive advertising, price gouging, defective merchandise and poor customer service.<\/p>\n

Internet issues followed closely with 4,595 complaints, which included data privacy and security fraud, digital media concerns, and internet manipulation frauds.<\/p>\n

Automobile-related problems ranked third with 4,521 complaints.<\/p>\n

Other major complaints involved credit, banking and mortgages with 4,235 reports, as well as landlord and tenant disputes with 4,041.<\/p>\n

Additional categories included consumer services with 3,330 complaints, utilities with 1,423, home repair and improvement with 1,349, entertainment with 1,079 and travel with 718.<\/p>\n

Attorney General Letitia James urges New Yorkers who have been victims of deceptive or fraudulent practices to file a consumer complaint online or call 1-800-771-7755.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. (WKTV) — New York\u2019s top consumer complaints in 2025 included high prices for essential goods, housing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[393,39112,10906,62713,396,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-149792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-attorney-general","tag-attorney-general-james","tag-bank-fraud","tag-consumer-complaints","tag-fraud","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}