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Dec 17

Visa cuts off 100 merchants for scamming consumers

Posted By Tracy
17 December 2009 / 9:32 am
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NEW YORK (AP) — Visa Inc. has cut off 100 scammers who use bogus marketing techniques to dupe consumers in the past six months.
Among the most common hustles: billing the credit cards of customers who thought they were getting free trial products like dietary supplements or teeth whiteners $79.95 per month or more, and then [...]