Attorney General Madigan Files Suit Against local affiliate marketer

Keep a boat docked at your nearest marina with about $50k stashed on it and get ready for viva la mexico! At least that my plan anyway. I feel for some of these affiliates, I mean it truly is their fault for pulling these stunts but I guess someone needs to be made an example of.
 


amanda11 said:
I'm Canadian, hahaha take that FTC!
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You should read the thread more carefully. Canadian doesn't matter.
And actually, I have a friend who wrote a pretty good paper on how rebills could (potentially) get you jailtime in CA. Their laws are actually stricter than the states.
Not sure if it applies to merchants or affs though.
 
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xmcp123 said:
You should read the thread more carefully. Canadian doesn't matter.
And actually, I have a friend who wrote a pretty good paper on how rebills could (potentially) get you jailtime in CA. Their laws are actually stricter than the states.
Not sure if it applies to merchants or affs though.
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Belize anyone?
 
I dont know what they were doing when they got first few complaints... I am fully agreed that poor americans are being cheated by misrepresentation. I dont mind rebill thing. But its fine when you are doing it in bit ethical way.

Dont know if they can take action against payday loans too.

Its bad when lot of marketer are accepting this kind of practice, they have come with such filings.. They must have warned them already strongly enough a lot before now. They have allowed it to happen. I believe AG must be sued by ignoring this issue so long and waited till the market is full of such things.

I will advise them to ban the bad marketing practice and give all marketers one chance.

Thanks
Sam
 
xmcp123 said:
You should read the thread more carefully. Canadian doesn't matter.
And actually, I have a friend who wrote a pretty good paper on how rebills could (potentially) get you jailtime in CA. Their laws are actually stricter than the states.
Not sure if it applies to merchants or affs though.
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where did you read this?
 
bb_wolfe said:
Belize anyone?
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Actually, and I dont know why, Belize isnt quite the safe haven it used to be. Not sure what changed recently, but I do know for a fact many gaming companies took off in '07, there were several setting up shop there. It might have been due to new tax declarations, but I remember somebody telling me they were starting to cooperate with the US more and more on certain issues (pansy asses).
 
This is probably just the tip of the iceberg.

Wait til O prah runs a show on these internet scams... and other states AGs get in on the act as well as the FTC. Plus greedy attorneys looking to file class action suits.

People should have expected this day 15 months ago.

This rape & pillage mindset is bad for the industry. I feel about as sorry for anyone caught up in the BS as they did when they were taking a dump on consumers.
 
xmcp123 said:
I took the hit and bought their docs from PACER...whoever's named in this is fucked.
They have screenshots of all the text ads on the big 3 advertising on the names "Dr.Oz","Oprah". In Google this includes the content network. 40 pages of text ads all said.

In addition, they have a screenshot of every landing page, cross referenced with the product they promoted, and the vendor of that product.
http://bit.ly/2DDNvE <---Rar file containing all the Exhibits (1-10)
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+rep, thanks
 
conv3rsion said:
i wonder how long until they name the 500+ additional defendants
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joshmv said:
Maybe this has already been covered, but are the additional defendants coming from the named URL's in the PDF, or do we know?
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Obviously IANAL.
But I'd say best case scenario is they're using these 500 urls as a way to boost up their claim of damage to the brand by demonstrating how widespread it is.
Worst case scenario they subpoena all the registrars, get the billing+contact info out from behind the whois.

Really, the choice is 100% theirs. I don't think they'll drop on the other 500 quite yet...they may get the information then get a few of the worst offenders, but right now they're most likely looking for a slam dunk case. You get a slam dunk case against a few large individuals rather than a lot of small ones.

Granted once they have the case, it gets really easy to go after others in the future.
 
The additional URL list is confusing, some URLs are duplicated within the same product block which doesn't make sense.
I imagine they will all be investigated but as it stands they don't yet know if the owner is based in the US. If he/she is they'll probably be included, if they aren't I guess they'll be filed as a future potential target or something, if the site isn't taken down.

The ~50 named companies all seem to be US based so that seems to be the easy target/priority as well as US affiliates I assume being the majority.
 
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