West Virginia joined Wisconsin and twelve other states plus the Federal Trade Commission in suing Alyon Technologies over trying to squeeze money from customers who never used their client porn sites and services. Now West Virginia's attorney general is looking for that state's own pound of flesh from the New Jersey billers.
Alyon was sued May 20 by Attorney General Darrell McGraw, who claimed among other things that a number of West Virginians got Alyon billing statements despite not even owning computers, according to the West Virginia Gazette. Assistant attorney general Christopher Hedges told the paper 42 complaints came to them about Alyon.
Alyon is also accused in this suit of deceptive advertising with adolescent boys as the targets, the Gazette said, by way of some ads saying no credit cards were needed to get access to certain Websites. "It appears that Alyon is trying to embarrass the parents of these adolescents into paying its illegitimate bills," McGraw told the paper. "And that conduct simply will not be tolerated in the state of West Virginia."
