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Article: SUIT: ADULT WEB VISITORS SCAMMED.(NEWS)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- August 24, 2000
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Owners of scores of adult Web sites have been charged with billing thousands of Web users for supposedly free services, and billing other consumers who have never visited the Web sites at all, the Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday.
Both the FTC and the New York attorney general's office filed suit in U.S. District Court seeking to halt the billing practices and have asked the court to freeze the defendants' assets in order to reimburse consumers. Crescent Publishing Group, Inc., based in New York City, and its owner, Bruce Chew, as well as David Bernstein are named as defendants in the complaint, along with 64 affiliated corporations that operate the ...