A U.S. judge has ordered a Canadian company to stop billing small businesses and other customers for nonexistent domain name registration services, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday.
The Toronto-based Data Business Solutions, doing business as Internet Listing Service, deceptively posed as domain name registrars and sent bogus bills to thousands of U.S. small businesses and nonprofit groups, the FTC alleged. The invoices were for annual "Website address listing" as well as search engine listing.
FTC press release: [ftc.gov...]
This type of scam has been sliming up my email, P.O. box, mailbox and phone lines for years. There will be no end to it. A sucker is born every day and another is born prepared to exploit their gullibility or greed or lack of wits.
The best we can do is to continue making the public aware of the bad practices and hope someone is listening or reading. Sad.
