Danny Burstein (dannyb@panix.com) Fri, 5 Nov 2004 11:15:37 -0500

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FTC Charges New Jersey Company with Defrauding Consumers Through Sale of its 'Matrix' Telecom Service NorVergence Claimed It Could Provide Dramatic Savings to Small Businesses "The Federal Trade Commission has charged New Jersey-based NorVergence, Inc. with defrauding consumers through misleading claims that it would provide them with years of dramatic savings on their monthly telephone, cellular, and Internet bills. It also falsely promised to provide unlimited long-distance and cellular minutes at no extra cost. [ snip ] "Finally, the Commission's complaint charges NorVergence with providing others with the means to commit deceptive and unfair acts by furnishing third-party finance companies with rental agreements it signed with its customers. By providing the agreements, NorVergence allegedly facilitated the finance companies' ability to file collection suits in areas outside of where the contracts were signed and to demand payment even if the consumers received no services. [ snippety snip, rest at: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2004/11/norvergence.htm ] _____________________________________________________ Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key dannyb@panix.com [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]

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