The Federal Trade Commissions filed amended complaints on Friday, adding defendants to two cases of alleged fraud.
In one, the FTC charged 1646153 Ontario Inc., Steven E. Dale and Pearl Keslassy to a case originally filed in May.
The FTC accuses the defendants of posing as domain name registrants and sending fraudulent bills for an annual “Website Address Listing” to small businesses and nonprofit groups in the United States.
The original complaint listed a corporate defendant: Data Business Solutions Inc., doing business as Internet Listing Service Corp., ILS Corp., ILSCORP.NET, Domain Lsiting Service Corp., DLS Corp. and DLSCORP.NET. It also charged three individuals: Ari Balabanian, Issac Benlol and Kirk Mulveney.
In the other case, the FTC added Quebec Inc. and Zonecom Technologies Inc., Ravinder Shawla and Amit Malhotra, to a cross-border Operation Tele-PHONEY case.
Filed in April, the original complaint charges the defendants, who reportedly work from Montreal, with fraudulently telemarketing elderly American consumers to offer discount drugs.
The initial complaint named 9107-4021 Quebec Inc., doing business as Med Provisions and Pronto Meda, and its principals Sameer Malhotra and Pooja Malhotra.
The Federal Trade Commissions filed amended complaints on Friday, adding defendants to two cases of alleged fraud.
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