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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Netvertise, Inc.
Penalty: $160,000
Year: 2007
Date: May 15, 2007
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: A company and its owner were ordered to return $160,000 to consumers and were banned for life from promoting or selling franchises or business opportunities after the Federal Trade Commission charged that they used bogus earnings claims to lure franchisees into buying their web services businesses, and failed to tell customers that the owner was under a previous FTC order for deceptively promoting rare coins.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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