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Victims of dodgy IT support from Office Depot will start receiving compensation checks, a US consumer watchdog said Thursday.
The payouts come from a 2019 settlement the retail giant reached with the FTC, after the biz was accused of letting employees and a computer support provider trick punters into paying for unneeded malware cleanup and security software. Office Depot agreed to fork out $25m while not admitting liability.
The regulator said that, between 2009 and 2016, the retailer and its partner company, support.com, used a rigged scanning tool that returned false positives for malware infections. It is estimated the pair charged more than half a million people for PC ..
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