
MLMs Continue to Recruit with Deceptive Earnings Claims
TINA.org investigation finds 98% of MLMs using misleading income claims.
In April 2017, a class-action lawsuit was filed against Carbonite, Inc. (a company that sells subscriptions for cloud and data backup protection) for allegedly deceptively marketing its automatic renewal and continuous service offers by failing to clearly disclose the terms of such offers resulting in consumers being charged without their consent. (Johnson et al v. Carbonite, Inc. and Does 1-10, Case No. 17-at-411, E. D. CA.)
For more information about other class-action lawsuits regarding negative option offers and TINA.org’s coverage of the issue, click here.
TINA.org investigation finds 98% of MLMs using misleading income claims.
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