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Posted by: The Original Mary at September 15, 2002, 8:40 pm

Topic: Golden Palace Casino Forum: Winner Online

These guys still own and operate GP and GP's many sister sites.
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Telemarketing Operation Fined a Record $300,000 Under the Competition Act For Scamming Thousands of Victims

February 2, 1999 -- The Competition Bureau announced yesterday that 3076784 Canada Inc., carrying on business as National Clearing House-Nationwide Clearing House and The National Clearing House, and the company president, Jack Stroll a.k.a. Jack Strulovitch, pleaded guilty to the highest fine ever imposed against a deceptive telemarketing firm under the misleading advertising provisions of the Competition Act.

A fine of $290,000 against the corporate entity and a fine of $10,000 against Mr. Stroll were imposed by the Quebec Superior Court.

Prize-pitch deceptive telemarketing is a serious problem in the marketplace. This case demonstrates our commitment to attack the arious forms of deceptive telemarketing in co-operation with other law enforcement agencies. The Bureau's law enforcement partners; OPP Project PhoneBusters, The Montreal Metropolitan Urban Police Force and the R.C.M.P. provided aluable assistance that contributed to the successful conclusion for this matter.

The charges relate to deceptive telemarketing and direct mail practices carried out by the Montréal area operation during the period of November1, 1994 to October 31, 1995. National Clearing House mailed "Official Claim Ceritficates" to consumers in every province of Canada with the exception of the province of Québec. The mail piece stated that they had been selected to receive at least one of five aluable awards, but stated that to be eligible to receive the awards they must call the firm within 72 hours. The odds of receiving the arious awards, and that a purchase was required to receive the awards, was disclosed in ery small print on the reverse side of the mail piece. Consumers responding to the mail piece were told that to be eligible to receive the awards they had to purchase grossly overpriced promotional items.

The awards offered ranged from a Ford Explorer to a diamond & sapphire pendant. Investigators did not uncover one winner of the Ford Explorer or of the other aluable award, the satellite t dish. Consumers received the same three awards; the diamond & sapphire pendant, the airfare for two to Hawaii, and the cellular telephone. However, so many terms and conditions applied to the airfare to Hawaii and to the cellular phone, that they had essentially no alue, and the diamond & sapphire pendant was comprised of a low alue commercial grade diamond. The conditions applicable to the awards were either not disclosed or were only partially disclosed to the consumer at the time of the transaction.

In addition, the Court imposed a Prohibition Order to prevent the repetition of the anticompetitive conduct against the corporate entity, Mr. Stroll and against the following managers and telemarketers:

Joel Greenspoon also known as Joel Green, Mark Francis, Leo Hackenbroch also known as Leo Hack, Robert Martin Schwartz also known as Robert Martin, Myra Kerzner Cohen also known as Myra Kerzner, Ann Slodovnick also known as Ann Slade and Velna Bernice Griffith-Johnson also known as Bernice Johnson.

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