The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a restrictive mandate against fraudsters promoting slimming pills through the Internet.
"Com spammers", as they are called, have been sending huge volumes of e-mail and SMS spam for many years. The same group advertises their products on Pinterest and other social networks.
The FTC's complaint was filed against Glendale, California-based Sale Slash. The company in cooperation with "fake websites news” ψευδείς ισχυρισμούς για απώλεια βάρους, και με την προβολή διασημοτήτων που δεν έχουν δώσει την permission (one of them was TV personality Oprah Winfrey), and spam e-mails promoting nutritional supplements and weight loss drugs.
After the complaint came the court decision against the defendants which froze their assets data, such as he says η FTC.
The FTC's complaint alleges that Sale Slash violated the FTC Act and the CAN-SPAM Act by conducting spamvertising for various productthe ones that are supposed to help with weight loss. These include: “Premium Green Coffee, Pure Garcinia Cambogia, Premium White Kidney Bean Extract, Pure Forskolin Extract, and Pure Caralluma Fimbriata Extract”.
Cloudmark has been searching for the messages to help the Federal Trade Commission find out the scams that were operating in the United States.
The fake news sites used to promote the scammers' plausible campaigns "appear to be written by an English speaker."
The FTC claims to have identified the person responsible for all this fraud, which has brought enormous revenue to all involved.
