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Five states file suits in newspaper subscription scam

Saturday, April 11, 2015 9:46
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Five states file suits in newspaper subscription scam | 09 April 2015 | Authorities in several states are suing to shut down a tangle of Oregon companies accused of bilking consumers out of $20 million in a nationwide newspaper-subscription scam. Attorneys general in Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oregon and Texas filed a coordinated series of lawsuits this month accusing nine people of operating a network of companies that sent fake invoices to customers of dozens of publications, including The Arizona Republic.The civil fraud and racketeering lawsuits allege the companies targeted primarily senior citizens and charged them up to 200 percent for subscriptions that didn't need to be renewed.



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