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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Yellow Page Marketing B.V.
Penalty: $10,200,000
Year: 2012
Date: November 27, 2012
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Acting on a Federal Trade Commission complaint, a federal court has ordered a European-based operation to pay more than $10.2 million for tricking small businesses and nonprofit organizations into paying for unwanted listings in online business directories. The default judgment permanently bans the defendants from marketing Internet directories and listings in the future, and prohibits them from collecting payments from their previous customers, disclosing or otherwise benefitting from customers' personal information, and failing to dispose of this information properly.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
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