Category: High-Risk Merchant Accounts

FDA & Product Rules

DEA Resets Its 7-OH Kratom Threshold as States Split Over Leaf Sales

DEA filed a notice on October 9 that would schedule 7-OH and mitragynine pseudoindoxyl above 1 milligram per gram or a set ratio to mitragynine, replacing its July 0.050 percent proposal, while MGM-15 and MGM-16 stay in Schedule I and Tennessee, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Pennsylvania draw different state lines for kratom sellers.

E-commerce 4 Internet Marketers Editorial
High-Risk Merchant Accounts

Eli Lilly Presses Card Companies and Processors to Cut Off Retatrutide Sellers

Eli Lilly's six retatrutide lawsuits came with a call for card companies and processors to cut off sellers, and a CBS News investigation then found more than 80 businesses promoting the unapproved drug under LegitScript's seal, raising the bar for licensed telehealth and compounding merchants in underwriting.

E-commerce 4 Internet Marketers Editorial
FDA & Product Rules

FDA Peptide Warning Letters Show Research Use Only Labels Did Not Shield Online Vendors

FDA's August 24, 2026 warning letters to Peak Performance Peptides, Royal Peptides, NuScience Peptides, Peptide Partners, and Tex Peptides set aside research use only disclaimers and list the product pages, study summaries, blog posts, calculators, and bacteriostatic water that FDA treated as evidence of intended human use.

E-commerce 4 Internet Marketers Editorial
Chargebacks & Fraud

Split Descriptors for Telehealth Consult Fees Versus Pharmacy Fulfillment

Telehealth brands that bill consults and pharmacy fulfillment on separate MIDs can reduce statement confusion and chargebacks when checkout copy, refunds, and descriptors stay aligned. FDA GLP-1 telehealth pressure makes clean money flows part of processor survival too.

E-commerce 4 Internet Marketers Editorial
Card Network Programs

Mastercard Scam Merchant Monitoring Triggers Force 72-Hour Acquirer Probes

Mastercard's Scam Merchant Monitoring Program, effective July 24, 2026 under bulletin GLB 12772, compresses scam-signal response into a 72-hour acquirer investigation clock that high-risk card-not-present stores cannot treat as optional ops theater.

E-commerce 4 Internet Marketers Editorial