A California-based scammer now plagues the region around St. Louis,...
A California-based scammer now plagues the region around St. Louis, Mo., the Better Business Bureau warned this week (http://bit.ly/W71vg20. The company that BBB rates “F,” with more than 900 complaints against it and 700 in the last year alone, has…
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led to “the scrutiny of attorneys general in at least 10 states,” the bureau said. It said the probes are for distributing “misleading invoices to businesses, schools and nonprofit groups,” under the names of US-Telecom Inc., US Telecom, UST Development Inc. or UST, with addresses listed in California. “The mailing appears to be a bill requesting a $425 payment, but actually is an attempt to sell a maintenance agreement for telecommunications systems,” the bureau said.