FTC Announces Crackdown On Fake News Sites Selling Weight Loss Products

[djbaxter]

FTC Announces Crackdown On Fake News Sites Selling Weight Loss Products
by Frank Watson, Search Engine Watch Blog
April 19, 2011

The Federal Trade Commission announced a major crackdown against a number of sites using the appearance of a news site to promote acacia berry weight loss products. "The FTC seeks to permanently stop this misleading practice and has asked courts to freeze the operations' assets pending trial," the FTC website stated.

Ten websites "that are meant to appear as if they belong to legitimate news-gathering organizations, but in reality the sites are simply advertisements aimed at deceptively enticing consumers to buy the featured acai berry weight-loss products from other merchants" were being sued by the FTC.

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[Linda Buquet]

You beat me again! I had other articles about that bookmarked to blog this AM but was behind sched.
Gonna start calling you SCOOP Dawg.

Guess I better go blog now!

 

[Linda Buquet]

I started a new thread, because there's a lot more to the story as it pertains to affiliates and I wanted a long enough title to explain it all.

Important info for CPA affiliates. Careful what you promote and how you promote it!

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5...ffiliate-network-assets-frozen.html#post86236