The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has recently reported that Lance Atkinson, a New Zealand citizen and Australian resident, was ordered to pay US$15.15 million for his role in a spam gang that “deceptively marketed products such as male-enhancement pills, prescription drugs, and weight-loss pills.” The FTC also reported that Atkinson’s accomplice, U.S. resident Jody [...]
MoneyGram ordered to pay $18m for fraud-related cases of agents
October 22, 2009 By Leave a Comment
MoneyGram International, Inc., the second-largest money transfer service in the United States, will pay $18 million in consumer redress to settle FTC charges that the company allowed its money transfer system to be used by fraudulent telemarketers to bilk U.S. consumers out of tens of millions of dollars. MoneyGram also will be required to implement [...]
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