A European-based scamming operation was ordered to pay more than...
A European-based scamming operation was ordered to pay more than $10 million to the FTC after allegedly tricking small businesses and nonprofits into paying for unwanted listings in online business directories (http://xrl.us/bn3wa4). The U.S. District Court in Chicago ordered Yellow…
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Page Marketing B.V. and other defendants to pay back its entire net sales from the operation, in which they were alleged to trick customers into believing they were affiliated with the customers’ local yellow pages directories, the court said. The FTC filed the lawsuit in July 2011 after receiving several hundred complaints from consumers who had received suspicious faxes claiming to be from their local yellow pages, it said.