The phrase "abuse consumers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing unethical practices or exploitation of consumers by businesses or individuals.
Example: "The company faced backlash after reports revealed they were found to abuse consumers through misleading advertising."
Alternatives: "exploit consumers" or "mistreat consumers".
"Rather than use its merger authority to protect the public against an expanding monopoly, the commission has allowed AT&T to extend the reach of its cable and broadband Internet service monopolies and extended the time during which it can abuse consumers and harm potential competitors," said Gene Kimmelman, co-director of Consumers Union's Washington office.
The progressives reasoned that electricity providers couldn't abuse consumers if they labored under the state's thumb, but it's far from that simple.
He said his plan would not allow Internet service providers or online companies to abuse consumers or small entrepreneurs.
As one of the judges in the Greed Olympics, President Obama has his work cut out for him, as the two industries compete to abuse consumers, damage the economy, and enrich their top executives.
"The committee has passed a bill that would give Wall Street and assorted predatory lenders a free hand to abuse consumers, and investors, and would increase the likelihood of another financial crisis," said Lisa Donner, executive director of the group Americans for Financial Reform.
"My argument as a former banker is this: If you, as a banker, think that you need to abuse consumers a little bit in order to make a profit, why don't you get out of this business and leave it people who are smarter and more ethical than you are? "It just totally isn't true that you need to be fleecing people left and right and being non-transparent to make this business viable.
"Providian has engaged in a pattern of abusing consumers by misleading them," said Daniel P. Stipano, the director of the comptroller's enforcement and compliance division.
But it is 2009, and the labels have been abusing consumers for so long that any format solely originating in them will be distrusted and ridiculed.
But we are not in the business of abusing consumers, we're in the business of protecting them, or helping them protect themselves.
And Google is abusing consumers' privacy.
In other words, sometimes even shutting down a bank isn't punishment enough: the corpse rises up as a mortgage servicer and continues abusing consumers.
