Discover Bank will pay millions in fees to settle accusations by regulators that it pressured credit card customers to buy costly add-on services like payment protection and credit monitoring.
Discover will pay a $14 million fine and refund $200 million directly to more than 3.5 million customers, federal authorities said Monday. The company’s call-center workers enrolled customers in the programs without their consent, misled about the benefits and left customers thinking the products were free, regulators said.
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