FTC mails out refund checks for buyers of scareware

ronjor · Dec 12, 2011

By Grant Gross, IDG News Service

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has begun to mail refund checks to computer owners who purchased so-called scareware from vendors who allegedly used deceptive advertising to trick customers into buying the software to fix their supposedly infected computers.

About 320,000 customers will receive refund checks, averaging US$20, the FTC said in a press release. The exact amount of the checks will be based on the amount of individual loss
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