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Company: PCCare 247 Inc.
Penalty: $2,967,393
Year: 2014
Date: July 24, 2014
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: A U.S. District Court ordered the operators of several international tech support scams to pay more than $5.1 million, acting on Federal Trade Commission charges that they masqueraded as major computer companies, tricked consumers into believing their computers were riddled with malware and then charged consumers to fix them.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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