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The Federal Trade Commission has adopted two men accused of trying to extract more than $ 10 million current accounts of the Bank of thousands of people to fake discount pharmacy that consumers never ordered.
In most cases, customers do not have any contact with Pharmacycards.com and other companies of the two men, and have noticed they were only if a levy of $ 139 has shown in his statement of account After an FTC complaint filed this week in the Federal Court in Las Vegas. A total of 90000 persons are of the opinion that has been affected, many of whom still do not know what happened.
“As long as regards the number of people were affected and the amount of money, it was a huge fraud,” said Claudia Bourne Farrell, an FTC spokesman.
Consumer Experts said the alleged fraud is remarkable for demystifies weaknesses in legislation and practices, individual private financial information in the Internet age.
Officials of the FTC said yesterday they believe that the regime applicable to corporate buyouts bank account information to third unidentified. Although it is illegal for a financial institution to sell control of bank account numbers, the law does not apply to other types of companies, experts of banking secrecy.
“This legal loophole typical American privacy. We have statutes for financial and medical institutions, but we do not have a broad law on the protection of personal information, including current accounts, “said Peter P. Swire, a law professor at Ohio State University, served as adviser to privacy in the Clinton administration.
Nearly 70 percent of attempts to seize items of $ 139 bank accounts were arrested or returned due to bad account numbers, measures of protection against fraud in the banks or vigilance on the part of bank customers , Fraud and pointed out. The operation was arrested within three months after the beginning of its customers reported the fraud to their bank or a watchdog group fraud.
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