FTC Keeps Taking Down Web Scammers
from the shut-'em-down dept
It appears the FTC is being kept extra busy these days taking care of small-scale scam operations that trick people online. They’ve gotten a temporary restraining order and frozen the assets of one company that promised people a profitable home business for $60 and then added all sorts of extra fees while providing them with nothing that let them actually create a profitable home business. They’ve also settled with a three-person operation for running a fraudulent envelope stuffing operation that they advertised by spam. They would get people to pay $40 to sign up, saying they would pay $2 per envelope stuff. However, once they got the $40, they never sent the envelope stuffing material. It’s nice that the FTC is cracking down on these guys, but there are thousands of such scams going on out there. I wonder how many new ones popped up today alone? People need to be educated not to buy into these get-rich-quick schemes, because they’re all scams.
Comments on “FTC Keeps Taking Down Web Scammers”
education?!?!
Good Lord man! You mean educate the masses??!! There would be anarchy! No more lawsuits against oreos, hot coffee, or taking dandruff shampoo internally. No more Darwin Awards. The end of Jerry Springer. No one to buy Hillary’s book. Responsible, intelligent people elected to public office! Just what kind of subversive are you?