FTC targets 'free' trial offers from Canadian entrepreneur

17.05.2011

The defendants' penny auction offers promised free bonus bids, but customers were hit with unexpected charges, including $150 for introductory bonus bids and $11.95 a month for ongoing bonus bids, the FTC alleged. Willms and his companies also made false weight loss and cancer cure claims for their products, the agency , filed Monday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.