By: Lesley Fair | Nov 28, 2018 12:48PM
According to a lawsuit filed by the FTC, an international network of corporations and individuals put consumers through the wringer with false claims about “free” trial offers, followed by unauthorized charges to their accounts.
Credit card processing “deals” may be scams
By: Emma Fletcher | Jun 21, 2018 2:18PM
If you’re in a small business, you probably need a way for people to pay you – and ways to lower your costs. Scammers have been working both of those angles, promising businesses that they can save on leases of credit card processing equipment. They’ve also been promising that businesses can cancel any time. But is that what happens?
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FTC alleges ISO, sales agents laundered millions in credit card charges
By: Lesley Fair | Aug 8, 2017 1:00PM
Consumer scams need four things to survive: food, water, air – and access to the credit card system. Credit card networks build protections into the system to engage lawful businesses while keeping an eye out for fraud. When people use tactics to try to work around those protections, law enforcers take notice.
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