[pjc50]

It sounds like the customers demanded the fraud remain, for their own internal Potemkin purposes.

[dredmorbius]

Possible, but not substantiated by the GP comment, which makes yours purely speculative.

[butlike]

> In less that a day business mandated us to remove the filter.

How is that not substantive?

[voltaireodactyl]

My impression is that the question is whether “business” in this instance refers to the Yellowpages company itself, or the companies that make up their customers base.

[dredmorbius]

Yes, and my read is that "business" was internal to Yellowpages.