Month: May 2020
FTC Halts Alleged Online “Free Trial” Subscription Scheme
By Richard B. Newman |
On May 8, 2020, the Federal Trade Commission announced that the operators of an alleged online subscription scheme agreed to settle charges that they tricked consumers out of more than $74.5 million by luring them with purported “free trial” offers for cosmetics and dietary supplements, then enrolling them in subscriptions and billing them without their…