TRO for Sex Site Billing Scam

[Marjorie Simmons <lawyer () USIT NET>]

Sex Site Billing Scam Results in TRO

On October 2nd, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the
Southern District of New York issued a temporary restraining
order halting the conduct of Verity International Ltd. and two
individuals from Britain as well as freezing their assets. The
FTC had charged the defendants with billing thousands of U.S.
consumers for videotext services that they did not know had
been accessed through their phone lines.  In order to use
Verity's system, consumers downloaded special dialing software
from "teaser" sites. Once activated, the program would
disconnect from the normal ISP, dial a Madagascar number and
direct the browser to an explicit sex site from a U.S. server.
The remote link cost $2.99 per minute. In a consumer alert
issued on October 5th, the FTC warned Net users to beware of
scams that reconnect computers to remote spots, at rates as
high as $7 a minute. The FTC's press release and link to the
complaint:  http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/10/verity.htm

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Marjorie Simmons, Esq.
PO Box 870
Taylors, SC 29687
864.609.0259
lawyer () usit net
http://www.carpereslegalis.com

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