Law Firm Seeks to Profit off Facebook Scams
A class action lawsuit has been filed against a number of companies who previously advertised on Facebook. These companies are accused of using aggressive advertising tactics to cheat Facebook users out of money. They are accused of reverse mobile billing scams and other methods of creating repeat-billing transactions without their customers’ awareness. However it has been suggested that the law firm that took on the class action case is really just looking to profit off of the fact that these scams may have taken place.
Basically what happened is that there were a lot of companies that were placing ads on Facebook. Customers would take an interest in the ads and find themselves signing up for subscription services. These were often mobile billing services which charged the customers’ cell phone each month for the subscription. This is a sad twist on the great service offered by sms providers who make online mobile billing easy for all of us. It’s unfortunate but is it really a crime?
The lawyers who have filed the class action suit do believe that this is a crime. They believe that it’s unconscionable that the companies advertised so aggressively on a social networking site without making the terms of the ads clearer. It’s up to the courts now to decide if that’s true. Hopefully the mobile billing business won’t get negative press as a result of the fact that these companies used the great service so poorly.
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