ACN Inc.
TINA.org investigated ACN as part of its larger investigations into atypical income claims used by MLM companies.
To read more about TINA.org’s 2023 MLM Income Claims Investigation, click here.
To read more about TINA.org’s 2017 DSA Income Claims Investigation, click here.
How We Took Action
2024
February 14
As part of its 2023 investigation into 100 MLM companies, TINA.org notifies ACN of its findings that the company has used atypical income claims to market its business opportunity.
2021
October 26
The FTC sends ACN a Notice of Penalty Offenses Concerning Money-Making Opportunities putting the company on formal notice that it is an unfair or deceptive trade practice to misrepresent that profits or earnings are the ordinary, typical or average profits or earnings made by participants, and to fail to disclose conditions affecting income, such as expenses borne by the participants, among other things.
June 30
TINA.org sends a letter, along with a list of more than 660 direct selling companies that includes ACN, to the FTC urging it to implement a penalty offense program targeting the direct selling industry and and its market-wide practice of using deceptive earnings representations and false health claims.
2018
January 2
ACN responds to TINA.org’s 2017 income claims findings.
2017
December 18
As part of its 2017 investigation into all DSA-member companies, TINA.org sends a letter to ACN regarding its use of false and unsubstantiated income claims to promote its business opportunity.
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