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Company: Inc21
Penalty: $37,000,000
Year: 2010
Date: September 30, 2010
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: At the request of the Federal Trade Commission, a U.S. district court permanently shut down the illegal operations of a firm that placed bogus charges on the telephone bills of thousands of small businesses and consumers for Internet-related services they never agreed to buy. The court barred the defendants from charging consumers' telephone bills and barred them from telemarketing unless they get prior approval from the FTC and the court. It also ordered third parties through which charges were placed, including local exchange telephone companies, or LECs, to return money in escrow to consumers, and ordered the defendants to pay nearly $38 million in restitution for consumers.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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