The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) recently fined a company $350,000 because they illegally scammed unsuspecting consumers in regard to a deadline for The Affordable Care Act. The company, an email marketing company named Kobeni, Inc., mailed a message to consumers telling them that they needed to click a link immediately to avoid paying a fine for Obamacare because they had a deadline.
The link in the email went to several insurance companies who had hired Kobeni to drive traffic to their banner ads, websites, and other medial portals for their products. The companies were unaware of this situation, but Kobini had negotiated a fee for each time a consumer made an inquiry to their these websites, so to them it didn't matter if the consumer did anything beyond visiting the websites.
Most of the consumers received no value for their efforts because, first of all, there was no deadline yet at that time, that was of any consequence, and the companies were not set up to market The Affordable Care Act at that time, so there was no benefit at all to the consumer. In January of 2014, Kobini was charged with the violation of the FTC Act because of their spreading of deceptive information regarding the legal deadlines regarding the ACA and of the violation of the CAN-SPAM Act by not offering a way for people to opt out of the emails.
The FTC fined Kobeni Solutions $350K as a restitution of ill-gotten money. The company did not admit or deny guilt. The IP addresses used by Yair Shalev are currently on the ROKSO block list.
Yair Shalev and his company, Kobeni Inc., (based in Hollywood, Florida) have been ordered to pay $350,000 in fines, even though they neither denied or admitted guilt in this matter. This suit was generated due to emails sent out during the initial stages of the Affordable Care Act. The email included a warning to consumers that would in violation o the law, unless they immediately clicked a link to enroll in an insurance plan.
Kobeni Inc., was also found in violation of the CAN-SPAM ACT as they failed to provide an opt-out option to recipients. They also failed to include any valid postal address in their emails. Shalev and Kobien Inc., (aka as Kobeni Solutions) are notorious among anti-spam advocates. They have been acknowledged as the second worst source of spam in the world, by the Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) maintained by Spamhaus.
The link in the email went to several insurance companies who had hired Kobeni to drive traffic to their banner ads, websites, and other medial portals for their products. The companies were unaware of this situation, but Kobini had negotiated a fee for each time a consumer made an inquiry to their these websites, so to them it didn't matter if the consumer did anything beyond visiting the websites.
Most of the consumers received no value for their efforts because, first of all, there was no deadline yet at that time, that was of any consequence, and the companies were not set up to market The Affordable Care Act at that time, so there was no benefit at all to the consumer. In January of 2014, Kobini was charged with the violation of the FTC Act because of their spreading of deceptive information regarding the legal deadlines regarding the ACA and of the violation of the CAN-SPAM Act by not offering a way for people to opt out of the emails.
The FTC fined Kobeni Solutions $350K as a restitution of ill-gotten money. The company did not admit or deny guilt. The IP addresses used by Yair Shalev are currently on the ROKSO block list.
Yair Shalev and his company, Kobeni Inc., (based in Hollywood, Florida) have been ordered to pay $350,000 in fines, even though they neither denied or admitted guilt in this matter. This suit was generated due to emails sent out during the initial stages of the Affordable Care Act. The email included a warning to consumers that would in violation o the law, unless they immediately clicked a link to enroll in an insurance plan.
Kobeni Inc., was also found in violation of the CAN-SPAM ACT as they failed to provide an opt-out option to recipients. They also failed to include any valid postal address in their emails. Shalev and Kobien Inc., (aka as Kobeni Solutions) are notorious among anti-spam advocates. They have been acknowledged as the second worst source of spam in the world, by the Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) maintained by Spamhaus.
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