DRTV computer firm faces fraud lawsuit

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Direct marketer Computer Personalities Systems and company president George Capell are being sued by Pennsylvania Attorney General Mike Fisher for fraudulent and deceptive business practices. Computer Personalities Systems marketed its computer systems through the Internet and TV infomercials between 1999 and 2000. The suit was filed in response to 140 complaints received by the state's Bureau of Consumer Protection. It seeks damages for consumers, civil penalties and a permanent ban from engaging in fraudulent and deceptive business practices.

Electronic Computer Manufacturing, Analog & Hybrid Computers, Pennsylvania, Microcomputers

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FTC crackdown leads to first spy ware suit

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The first spyware case details of deceptively installing a web monitoring software on consumers computers, filed by The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against the New Hampshire based Sanford Wallace and his company, Seismic Entertainment Productions are discussed.

United States, Legal/Government Regulation, Company legal issue, Cases, United States. Federal Trade Commission, Malware, Wallace, Sanford

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