June 30th, 2021
MADISON, CONN. June 30, 2021 – Ad watchdog truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) sent a letter today to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging it to initiate a penalty-offense program targeting the direct selling industry and its market-wide practice of utilizing deceptive earnings representations and false health claims. For years TINA.org has taken an active role in holding
June 30th, 2021
And if you don’t know, now you know.
April 5th, 2021
TINA.org alerts Washington AG’s office to deceptive income claims and more.
December 15th, 2020
Deceptive health and income claims, including some tied to COVID-19, persist in wake of warning from the feds.
December 15th, 2020
In 2020, TINA.org investigated the 16 MLMs targeted by the FTC for making deceptive COVID-related claims and found that each of the MLMs has continued to make unsubstantiated health claims and/or deceptive income claims, either directly or through distributors. A majority of the MLMs (10 out of 16) have also continued to put these claims
November 19th, 2020
MLM’s health claims fail to stand up to an increased level of scrutiny amid a worldwide pandemic.
September 14th, 2020
How income claims, even truthful ones, can be deceptive when marketing the MLM business opportunity.
September 9th, 2020
Pyramid scheme experts explain how MLM income disclosures can be deceptive.
April 17th, 2020
Exaggerated earnings claims are not hard to find.
April 14th, 2020
We have to make sure we’re not seen as “taking advantage of a crisis situation,” said DSA President Joe Mariano.
January 27th, 2020
Latest FTC pyramid action should serve as a warning for the MLM industry.
October 30th, 2018
Complaint alleges Trump secretly received millions of dollars in payments while deceptively marketing ACN.
