Office Depot, Office Max and a California-based vendor, Support.com will pay $35m to settle claims the companies duped computer owners to pay for repairs to their computers they may not have needed.

Office Depot agreed yesterday to pay $25 million in a settlement with the US Federal Trade Commission as part of a lawsuit accusing the company of tricking customers into buying unneeded tech support ...

The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday said Office Depot and a tech support firm will cough up a collective $35 million to settle with the agency over claims that both were complicit in a computer ...

Office Depot and a partner company tricked customers into buying unneeded tech support services by offering PC scans that gave fake results, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Consumers paid ...

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Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) last week asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate claims that retailer Office Depot used some of the same tactics as PC tech scammers to convince consumers to ...

(WKRG) — Office Depot, Office Max and a California-based vendor, Support.com will pay $35m to settle claims the companies duped computer owners to pay for repairs to their computers they may not have ...