LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — An organization that operated faux web sites for Mackinac Island points of interest, together with the ferry, must take them down, in keeping with an settlement with Michigan Lawyer Common Dana Nessel.
Based on Nessel, Texas firm MTVRS, LLC, operated two faux web sites promoting tickets for varied Mackinac Island-related actions, violating the Michigan Shopper Safety Act. One of many web sites, fortmackinactickets.com, mimicked the official web site and charged “marked-up” ticket costs.
Nessel additionally says a separate web site, mackinacticketing.com, misled shoppers into believing they had been buying tickets for Shepler’s Ferry from the corporate’s personal web site. Nonetheless, in actuality, MTVRS charged a further $7.95 payment earlier than utilizing buyer cost information to buy tickets from the official web site.
Friday, Nessel introduced her workplace had reached an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance (AVC) with MTVRS, following a cease-and-desist the Division of Lawyer Common had despatched to the corporate.
Below the situations of the AVC, MTVRS should take down the web sites and can’t make any new web sites associated to Michigan vacationer points of interest or ticketed occasions, nor try and promote tickets for points of interest in different states.
Moreover, the corporate can be required to reimburse shoppers who used their web sites to buy tickets and pay restitution to the state.
A duplicate of the AVC is accessible under:
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