ONLINE PLATFORMS AGREE TO EU CALL TO STOP COVID-19 SCAMS
March 2nd, 2020
THE EUROPEAN Commission has said online retail platforms selling into the European Union (EU) had “showed strong commitment and responded positively” to its March 23 call to stop COVID-19 scams and protect consumers. Allegro, Amazon, AliExpress, Bing, Cdiscount, eBay, Facebook, Google, Rakuten, Wish and Yahoo! have all agreed to take measures to stop online scams promoting fake products against the virus, such as face masks, gloves, sanitizers and ‘miracle products’, the EU executive said (on April 3). All these e-commerce platforms now have channels to ...
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