The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) busted a Canadian company for billing businesses for advertisements and listings in non-existent directories.

Moral of the story: double-check those invoices. If you’ve got someone else handling accounts payable, make sure that they’re not cutting checks simply because an invoice looks legit.

About the Author

With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 14 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young shows entrepreneurs how to protect and grow their businesses online. He's the author of Internet Marketing Legal Secrets Revealed. Not just a lawyer who focuses exclusively on Internet and marketing law, Mike’s been working with computers for more than 27 years (his first computer was an Atari 400 with 8 KiB RAM) and started representing Internet businesses back in 1996.