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Company: Stamps.com
Penalty: $2,500,000
Year: 2015
Date: September 28, 2015
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Secondary Offense: false advertising
Violation Description: Stamps.com agreed to pay $2.5 million in penalties in settlement of allegations by the District Attorneys of Santa Clara and Santa Cruz that it advertised a no-risk trial without clearly disclosing that customers would be automatically enrolled onto a paid monthly service.
Level of Government: local
Action Type: agency action
Agency: California Multi-Jurisdiction Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
Facility State: California
Facility County: multi-county
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