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The tip was pre-selected. That was the whole business.

The travel app promised cheap flights and told users to tip their booking assistant. The FTC says the tip was never really optional. It was the product.

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The notification said someone liked her. The someone did not exist.

Between 2016 and 2018, nearly half a million people bought Match.com subscriptions within 24 hours of getting a message from an account the company already suspected was fake. The $14 million settlement closes a case the FTC originally valued at $884 million.

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