LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — An organization that operated faux web sites for Mackinac Island sights, together with the ferry, must take them down, in line with an settlement with Michigan Lawyer Normal 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 Client 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 customers into believing they have been buying tickets for Shepler’s Ferry from the corporate’s personal web site. Nevertheless, in actuality, MTVRS charged a further $7.95 charge earlier than utilizing buyer cost data 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 Normal had despatched to the corporate.
Underneath the circumstances of the AVC, MTVRS should take down the web sites and can’t make any new web sites associated to Michigan vacationer sights or ticketed occasions, nor try to promote tickets for sights in different states.
Moreover, the corporate might be required to reimburse customers who used their web sites to buy tickets and pay restitution to the state.
A duplicate of the AVC is offered under:
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