MLMs Need to be Included in FTC’s Business Opportunity Rule
TINA.org files comment in support of applying rule to direct selling industry.
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Opinions on a variety of deceptive marketing topics.
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TINA.org Pushes for New Enforcement Tactic Against MLM Industry
And if you don’t know, now you know.
It’s Now Legal for Scammers to Keep Your Money
Tell your member of Congress to #MakeScammersPay
TINA.org’s Year in Review 2020
Looking back at 2020.
TINA’s Take: Supreme Court Considers Whether Liars Can Keep Money They Stole
TINA.org files brief in critical case concerning FTC authority.
Deceptive Income Claims – How Not to Market Your MLM Business
How income claims, even truthful ones, can be deceptive when marketing the MLM business opportunity.
Court Rules that Success by Health Was a Pyramid Scheme
Court also finds that defendants made false and deceptive earnings claims.
TINA.org’s Year in Review 2019
It was another successful year outing deceptive marketing on multiple fronts.
#RealDirectSellers Don’t Obtain Financial or Time Freedom
Trade organization campaign features deceptive income claims.
Marketers Downplay Consumer Harm Caused by Negative Option Offers
Marketers are attempting to put a positive spin on the negative option.
Alleged Pyramid Scheme Nerium Pens Its Wish List
Declarations in court filing read more like a legislative manifesto than remedies that could appropriately be issued by a court.