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Company: Consumerinfo.com
Penalty: $300,000
Year: 2007
Date: February 21, 2007
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Consumerinfo.com, doing business as Experian Consumer Direct, agreed to pay $300,000 to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that ads for its "free credit report" offer failed to disclose adequately that consumers who signed up would be automatically enrolled in a credit- monitoring program and charged $79.95. The FTC alleged that the failure to clearly disclose the enrollment and charges violated a previous settlement.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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