More Than $9.1 Million in Payments Being Sent To Customers Who Paid For And Defrauded By Deceptively Marketed “Amazing Wealth System” Workshop
Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware that on August 11, 2020, the FTC announced that it is mailing checks and sending PayPal payments totaling more than $9.1 million to customers who paid for an “Amazing Wealth System” workshop.
According to the lawsuit brought by the FTC, the defendants, FBA Stores and related companies and individuals, falsely claimed their “Amazing Wealth System” would enable people to create a profitable online business selling products on Amazon. The defendants, however, had no affiliation with Amazon.com; buyers did not earn the advertised income; most consumers lost significant amounts of money; and many of the customers experienced problems with their Amazon stores, including losing their ability to sell on Amazon.com.
The FTC is sending checks to 13,348 customers with an average refund amount of $684.24.Those who receive checks should, according to the FTC, deposit or cash their checks within 60 days. People who paid for workshops from FBA Stores and related companies, but did not receive a refund, should contact the refund administrator, JND Legal Administration. The FTC never requires people to pay money or provide information to cash a refund check. Recipients who have questions about this refund program, according to the FTC, should contact the refund administrator, JND Legal Administration, at (888) 383-3027.
FTC Has Created Three Videos To Help Consumers Prevent Unwanted Calls
Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware that the FTC has created three videos to help you keep unwanted calls from reaching your phone. The FTC’s videos provide information about the technologies consumers can use to block unwanted calls from your cellular phone and landline, as well as guidance about how to stop receiving calls from fake numbers.
Do You Believe You Are a Victim of Illegal Robocalls, Text Messages, “Junk” Faxes or Telemarketing Sales Calls?
If you have received illegal robocalls, text messages, “junk” faxes or telemarketing sales calls, you may be able to recover at least $500 for each illegal call, text or fax you received and, possibly, as much as $1,500 for each illegal call, text message or facsimile that was made either willfully or knowingly in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
To help evaluate your potential legal claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, please complete KLF’s confidential Robocall Questionnaire or, if you prefer to speak with an attorney, please complete the form above on the right, e-mail [email protected] or contact Michael Yarnoff, Esq., [email protected], (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, for a free, no-obligation evaluation of your potential legal rights.
Canon Suffers Ransomware Attack Impacting Numerous Services – Canon Disclosed Ransomware Attack In An Internal Notification To Canon Employees
Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware that BleepingComputer has reported that “Canon has suffered a ransomware attack that impacts numerous services, including Canon’s email, Microsoft Teams, USA website, and other internal applications. In an internal alert sent to employees, Canon has disclosed the ransomware attack and [is] working to address the issue.” [Emphasis added.]
BleepingComputer reported that it “. . . obtained a screenshot of an internal message sent by Canon to employees that discloses the ransomware attack.” As reported by BleepingComputer, Canon’s internal message from its Crisis Management Committee can be viewed by clicking Canon ransomware message.
BleepingComputer reported that, “[a]fter contacting the ransomware operators, BleepingComputer was told . . . that the[] attack was conducted . . . when [the ransomware operators] stole ’10 terabytes of data, private databases etc’ as part of the attack on Canon.” [Emphasis added.]
Have You Been Impacted by A Data Breach?
If so, please either contact Kehoe Law Firm, P.C., Michael Yarnoff, Esq., (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, [email protected], complete the form on the right or e-mail [email protected] for a free, no-obligation case evaluation of your facts to determine whether your privacy rights have been violated and whether there is a basis for a data privacy class action.
Examples of the type of relief sought by data privacy class actions, include, but are not limited to, reimbursement of identity theft losses and of out-of-pocket costs paid by data breach victims for protective measures such as credit monitoring services, credit reports, and credit freezes; compensation for time spent responding to the breach; imposition of credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance, paid for by the defendant company; and improvements to the defendant company’s data security systems.
Data privacy class actions are brought on a contingent-fee basis; thus, plaintiffs and the class members do not pay out-of-pocket attorney’s fees or litigation costs. Subject to court approval, attorney’s fees and litigation costs are derived from the recovery obtained for the class.
Purchasers Or Sellers Of May 2020 Light Sweet Crude Oil Futures Contracts (WTI) Traded On NYMEX Between April 20, 2020 and April 21, 2020 Encouraged To Contact Kehoe Law Firm, P.C.
Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is investigating potential antitrust claims onbehalf of purchasers or sellers of May 2020 WTI Crude Oil Futures Contracts traded on the NYMEX between April 20, 2020 and April 21, 2020.
Specifically, the investigation focuses on whether Vega Capital London Ltd. traders colluded to put downward pressure on oil futures contract prices to reap a huge, one-day profit windfall when the oil futures markets collapsed.
Purchasers or sellers of May 2020 Light Sweet Crude Oil Futures Contracts (WTI) traded on the NYMEX between April 20, 2020 and April 21, 2020 are encouraged to contact Michael Yarnoff, Esq., (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, [email protected], [email protected], to discuss the antitrust investigation or potential legal claims.
Emanate Health’s Third-Party Vendor, PaperlessPay Corporation, Suffers Data Breach Involving Personal Information of Emanate Former and Current Employees
Kehoe Law Firm, P.C. is making consumers aware that Emanate Health filed a sample breach notification letter with the State of California Department of Justice, Office of the Attorney General, advising current and former employees about a data breach involving Emanate Health’s third-party vendor, PaperlessPay Corporation (“PaperlessPay”), which Emanate Health has contracted to process and deliver electronic pay stubs and W-2 tax forms. According to the breach notification letter, the data breach involves the personal information of former and current employees of Emanate Health.
According to the breach notification letter:
[Emanate Health] received notice from PaperlessPay on March 20, 2020 informing [Emanate Health] that an unauthorized person gained access to its computer server. PaperlessPay learned of the incident on February 19, 2020 when the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) contacted PaperlessPay to inform them that an unknown person was purporting to sell “access” to the PaperlessPay database on the dark Web.
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The [data breach] investigations confirmed that an unknown individual accessed PaperlessPay’s SQL server where employee data is stored on February 18, 2020. The available evidence has not, however, allowed DHS, the FBI, or PaperlessPay’s cybersecurity firm to determine what data the individual may have accessed or viewed while connected to the SQL server. It is possible the person only used the access to determine the size of the SQL database and to stage it for subsequent access that could be sold to others, and that the individual did not directly access any employee data. However, the individual would have had the capability to run queries against the SQL database and view its data, so PaperlessPay cannot rule out the possibility of unauthorized access or acquisition of your personal information.
. . .The information stored in the SQL server about employees consists of the data components that appear on their pay stubs and tax forms, including their name, address, pay and withholdings, last four digits of bank account number (if that information is included on the pay stubs), and Social Security number. These data components are stored on the SQL server in different tables that are associated by user ID numbers, not names, within each table. Therefore, the only way to associate any data with an individual would be to run a query against the database and have it aggregate an individual’s name with his or her other data components. PaperlessPay could not conclusively determine whether such queries were run. No bank account passwords or access codes were stored on the SQL server.
Have You Been Impacted by A Data Breach?
If so, please either contact Kehoe Law Firm, P.C., Michael Yarnoff, Esq., (215) 792-6676, Ext. 804, [email protected], complete the form on the right or e-mail [email protected] for a free, no-obligation case evaluation of your facts to determine whether your privacy rights have been violated and whether there is a basis for a data privacy class action.
Examples of the type of relief sought by data privacy class actions, include, but are not limited to, reimbursement of identity theft losses and of out-of-pocket costs paid by data breach victims for protective measures such as credit monitoring services, credit reports, and credit freezes; compensation for time spent responding to the breach; imposition of credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance, paid for by the defendant company; and improvements to the defendant company’s data security systems.
Data privacy class actions are brought on a contingent-fee basis; thus, plaintiffs and the class members do not pay out-of-pocket attorney’s fees or litigation costs. Subject to court approval, attorney’s fees and litigation costs are derived from the recovery obtained for the class.
