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Free Beauty Trial Wasn’t Free, Says FTC

Agency files injunction against AH Media Group for online subscription scam.

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By: Christine Esposito

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Free trials aren't always as free as they seem to be. The operators of a what the Federal Trade Commision (FTC) is calling a “deceptive negative option scheme” have agreed to a court-ordered preliminary injunction temporarily barring them from a wide range of conduct. The preliminary injunction stops the defendants from misleading consumers about supposedly “free trial” offers of cosmetics, enrolling them in unwanted continuity plans, billing them without their authorization, and making it ...

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