Fraudulent online listing service pays out $1.7M to FTC for charging businesses for unwanted services

A service that purported to be an online business directory listing agent will have to pay out $1.7 million to the Federal Trade Commission for charging small businesses for listings they didn’t ask for. Defendants Francois Egberongbe and Robert N. Durham, Sr., the two men behind the scheme, will also be banned from telemarketing going forward. Under […]