[UK] Regulierer verhängt Strafe gegen "Betrugshilfeseite"

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Unter fraudhelpline.org hat eine britische Firma Hilfe bei Internetbetrug angeboten (u.a. im Zusammenhang mit Auktionen). Dagegen gingen Institutionen vor, u.a. die City of London Police.

The three complainants are bodies which seek to professionally deal with fraud-related matters, and they stated that they were concerned about the use of a premium rate number to obtain advice on fraud when this information was available for free in the public domain. They were also concerned about the use of the title ‘national fraud reporting centre’ as a marketing name (when this name was entered into the Google search engine, the website fraudhelpline.org was the top sponsored link) andthe wording of the promotional claims made by the service on the website.

Der Dienst wurde gesperrt, Gelder müssen zurück bezahlt werden und es gab 50.000 Pfund Strafe.