A federal judge shut down an information broker accused of sellin...
A federal judge shut down an information broker accused of selling confidential phone records on consumers without their knowledge or consent. Accusearch, doing business as Abika.com, will forfeit nearly $200,000 in profits and must notify those whose data it…
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sold. The defendants were accused of advertising on their Web site that they could get anyone’s confidential phone records, including details of outgoing and incoming calls. They used “false pretenses, fraudulent statements, fraudulent or stolen documents or other misrepresentations, including posing as a customer,” to get phone companies to give up the confidential records, the FTC said.