Oregon SA warns small businesses on the page response misleading yellow
DOJ group is active in Oregon for six months.
Many of these “yellow pages” rules, which, because a visible sign of the “Yellow Pages” internationally renowned and the logo of the comic book display finger up by the phone book have never been protected .
(Salem, Ore..) - Attorney General Hardy Myers today warned, Oregon small businesses and nonprofit organizations misleading about the response telephone boiler in Canada and announced the filing of an agreement with an advertising Canadian Internet group, they stop on Telemarketing Oregon until 14 June 2008.
This agreement, together with an earlier agreement to the suspension of marketing of telecommunications in the state until the end of the moratorium in June, have blocked the company stores in Oregon over a year.
Called a commitment to voluntary compliance (AVC) Marion County Circuit Court is OYP The Group (OYP), Montreal, Quebec, Canada, an e-mail using Drop Plattsburg, New York. Strokes not recognize the violation of law.
“Oregon businesses, charities and churches must be constantly reminded, many frauds telephone from Canada,” said Myers.
“OYP is aggressive, like other Solicitors masquerading as legitimate companies to sell yellow page advertising on the phone, but in reality they are often operations heating the space of little worry about the accuracy and honesty. ”
Oregon Department of Justice (DOJ) has received 16 complaints of investigators from Oregon are businesses and charitable OYP against the accusation that the company deceived, turnover during pitch on the phone.
The complainants said they had discussed the call was the “Yellow Pages” and the appellant is wanted or offering existing wanted to verify some information, as the nature of the business and its address all free. Both types of calls with follow-up to the billing of Internet services and the collection collection aggressive, and then invites payments for services never accepted.
The company produces reading tape telephone conversations, it appears that the victim must have actually ordered the service, if the opposite was the case, according to the victim.
“Although the company has concluded an agreement about our investigators are carefully observed, as many phone numbers of operations in Canada from any promise and do little, if ever, change how they operate , “Says Myers.
As part of the stroke, OYP agreed to refrain from telemarketing in Oregon for six months, change the nature and how they operate, provide DOJ and business plans sale and repayment and / or terminate Oregon customers charged each alleging they were misled.
The company agreed to pay $ 4000 DOJ on consumer protection and promote education. DOJ suspend $ 3000 after receiving the first payment of $ 1000 and proof that the return on all the questions were for the next 12 months. If the complaint is not resolved, a decision will be made to records for 3000 $ 1000 $ plus attorneys’ fees
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