Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against WebLoyalty Alleging Fraud

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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against WebLoyalty Alleging Fraud

10-10-2006, 11:58 AM,

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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against WebLoyalty Alleging Fraud

Quote:Customers of several popular online retailers, including Fandango.com, Priceline.com, and Staples.com, were victims of an alleged Internet scheme in which their credit cards were charged a monthly fee for a ``discount club" membership they had never requested, according to a class action lawsuit filed yesterday in US District Court in Massachusetts.

The lawsuit accuses Webloyalty.com, an online marketing services company in Norwalk, Conn., of engaging in a ``coupon click fraud" scam in which credit card information was transferred to Webloyalty by its dozens of online partners -- such as Movietickets.com, Petco.com, and FTD.com -- without consumers' consent.

Webloyalty, which is accused of violating consumers' privacy rights and engaging in deceptive business practices that have netted the company huge fees, denied any wrongdoing...

full article: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/..._ran_scam/

related article:
MarketWorks makes pushing WebLoyalty on buyers the Default during checkout
http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...l#msg17102

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