Care.com to refund $8.5M to customers for its ‘deceptive’ practices, FTC says | CNN Business

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The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that Care.com had agreed to a proposed $8.5 million settlement to address what the FTC called “unlawful practices,” which include misleading both the job seekers and job posters who use the site.

“Care.com used inflated job numbers and baseless earnings claims to lure caregivers onto its platform, and used deceptive design practices to trap consumers in subscriptions,” said Samuel Levine, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, in a statement released Monday afternoon. “The order announced today puts a stop to these unlawful practices, returns millions of dollars

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