FTC and Minnesota AG sue Yosef Bernath, the operator of a lead-generation network.

[keyserholiday]

Yosef ran a large-scale lead-generation network across the United States.

Here is the press release announcing the lawsuit. Hopefully, we will see more lawsuits in the future.

Sadly, the GBPs are still live on Google, and people are answering the phones.

 

[Conor Treacy]

We need more of this! I seem to recall a few years ago that there was a massive campaign against reviewers, and the FTC was going after people posting fake reviews. I can't remember the details on that, but there was something from just the reviewer end of things.