{"id":4660,"date":"2004-01-15T11:33:23","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T15:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/01\/15\/ftc-creates-web-cramming-hotl"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:31","slug":"ftc-creates-web-cramming-hotline-for-epixtar-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/01\/15\/ftc-creates-web-cramming-hotline-for-epixtar-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Creates Web Cramming Hotline for Epixtar Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a521'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">The Federal Trade Commission today <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/opa\/2004\/01\/epixtar.htm\"><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">announced<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"> the creation of a hotline for consumers who believe they were victims of an alleged Web &#x201C;cramming&#x201D; scam operated by National Online Services, Inc., Liberty Online Services, Inc., B2B Advantage formerly known as SBA Online, Inc., and Ameripages, Inc. a\/k\/a Amerilinc, Inc. <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">&#8220;The FTC&#x2019;s hotline, which will open shortly at 202-326-2998, will advise consumers on what steps to take if they receive a notice from the defendants, and what they should do to obtain a refund.&#8221; <\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Geneva,Arial,Sans-Serif\"><FONT size=\"2\">Note that the FTC also has an e-brochure to help small businesses avoid web service scams:&nbsp; <STRONG><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/bcp\/conline\/pubs\/alerts\/webalrt.htm\">Website Woes: Avoiding Web Service Scams<\/A><\/STRONG><\/FONT><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n<LI><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">Continued vigilance by the FTC in the area of web and telecom scams should help alleviate the concerns raised by <A href=\"http:\/\/www.fedlawyerguy.org\/\">Jerry Lawson<\/A> in his comments to <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2003\/12\/16#a390\">this<\/A> posting.&nbsp;<\/FONT><\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Trade Commission today announced the creation of a hotline for consumers who believe they were victims of an alleged Web &#x201C;cramming&#x201D; scam operated by National Online Services, Inc., Liberty Online Services, Inc., B2B Advantage formerly known as SBA Online, Inc., and Ameripages, Inc. a\/k\/a Amerilinc, Inc. &#8220;The FTC&#x2019;s hotline, which will open shortly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1da","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14049,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/14049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}