Jerk.com Jerked Around Consumers, FTC Says

Site secretly grabbed personal information from Facebook to create profiles

How's this for an online racket? Surreptitiously grab information from Facebook to create tens of millions of profiles labeling people a "jerk" or "not a jerk" and then charge people $30 to revise their online profiles.

The deceptive scheme didn't sit well with the Federal Trade Commission, which today filed an administrative complaint against Jerk, LLC and the operator of the website, John Fanning, for misleading consumers that the content on the site had been created by other Jerk.com

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