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Adult Sites Pay $30 Mln To Settle Fraud Charges

Posted by timothy on from the class-action dept.

Brian writes: "This article states that the operators of www.playgirl.com and several other Web sites offering adult-oriented content agreed to pay $30 million to settle charges that they illegally billed thousands of customers for what were advertised as free services, the Federal Trade Commission said on Monday."

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  1. Payment to victims by fava · · Score: 2, Insightful

    A quote from the article:
    The $30 million will be distributed to consumers who have been defrauded by Crescent Publishing.

    If that proves impractical, the money will be divided equally between the U.S. Treasury and the State of New York, the FTC said.

    Want to bet that it will be very impractical to distrubute all the funds to the victims. They will probibly make the application procedure so complex and convoluted that most people will give up.