Gentle Readers, there's actually a web site dedicated to busting Bubblews:
http://burstbubblews.blogspot.com/
I'm adding it to my Google feed. If you're a Bubbler, or are interested in law and public policy and/or ethics and/or international relations, I recommend that you add it too. Quite informative.
In communication with the Federal Trade Commission, please mention complaint #59993228.
(Even if they assign a separate number to your separate complaint...which I hope they do, actually. Numbers are important. The FTC need to see lots of numbers so they can appreciate the need to mandate that, under federal law, if a U.S.-based company has a web site that displays an amount of money the company is supposed to send any person, that company has a maximum of 24 hours to send that payment, in full, before the FTC shuts down their web site and imposes a fine on them. Arvind and Jason thought it was very clever to have a computer automatically promise payments... and the rest of us thought that letting a computer publicly promise payments that the company didn't have and didn't intend to make would have been covered by existing laws about fraudulent advertising.)
Going to check it out now. Thanks for the heads up.
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