House lawmakers try to finish the work of the year has also adopted a second consumer protection law that would crack down on vendors of third parties attacking people during the online purchase transactions.
Previously, the Senate passed two bills and votes in the Assembly send them to Barack Obama President for his signature.
Invoice ID calling, sponsored by representatives Eliot Engel, D - N.y., and Joe Barton, R - Tex, the question of the ?spoofing addresses of ? where scammers use the ID of the caller, for example, a bank or a Government to deceive people by providing private information Office.
Engel cited a case where the New York City police discovered an identity theft ring that uses the ID caller spoofing steal $ 6,000 victims more than 15 million last year. In another case, a SWAT team has closed a neighbourhood of New Brunswick, New Jersey, after receiving a call with an ID of fake calling someone in distress.
Rep Tim Murphy, R-in Pennsylvania, said that he was a spy phone that constituents bombarded by calls that reveals his Office.
The draft law applies to persons who use IDs of the appellant, the number appearing on the phone of the person who receives the call, to defraud or harm unfairly obtain something of value.
Exceptions are made for the application of the law or who need to hide or change the IDs of the activities of intelligence or organizations such as the centres of violence home change numbers to protect the occupants of a shelter.
The Bill authorizes civil penalties of up to $10,000 for each offence, until a total of 1 million dollars for every single act.
Online purchasing protection Act deals with a practice where third-party vendors interrupt online transaction process and try to register consumers as clients or members of the club. Consumers may not realize that they are dealing with another company and they can register for membership for which they are then responsible for recurring monthly fees.
Senator John d. Rockefeller, Trade Committee President and promoter of the Bill, said well-known, trustworthy sites are hundreds of millions of dollars by passing on information of their customers, including credit and debit card numbers, billing to these third party vendors.
He said a one-year investigation by its Committee revealed that these costs unauthorized third-party vendors have already cost consumers more than 1 billion.
Bill would require the post-transaction advertisers disclose the terms of their offers and information billing directly to consumers. Prohibit Internet retailers to transfer information from billing to third-party vendors and cracking down on use of ?negative options? where consumers are charged monthly until they communicate with vendor third to cancel their membership fees.
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