Wednesday, February 26, 2025

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FTC Order Requires Company and Its Owner to Pay $146,249, and Stop Making Deceptive ‘Made in USA’ Claims

The Federal Trade Commission recently announced that a company that sells customizable promotional products such as wristbands, lanyards, temporary tattoos, and buttons, and its...

FTC Clarifies Social Media Advertising Policies

Attorneys Holland & Knight hosted Michael Ostheimer, a senior attorney for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for a webinar presentation on Feb. 16, 2021....

Uber Chief Claims Most Performance Marketing is Pure Fraud

Kevin Frisch, the former head of performance marketing and CRM at Uber, told the tale of how ad fraud (specifically attribution fraud) ate at...

FTC Sues Facebook for Social Network Monopolization

The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it has sued Facebook, alleging that the company is illegally maintaining its personal social networking monopoly through...

Mary Dinh: Scammer or Not?

I met Mary Dinh during the ASE party sponsored by EngageBDR/A4D and as luck/fate would have it – she lives not more than 15 minutes...

Racist Nazi Scammer: Paige Thompson of Silverline CRM

Do not do business with Silverline CRM until they get rid of this employee: she is posting anti-Jewish, pro-racist, nazi-like posts all over the...

Alessandro Benigni: Racist, Money Launderer and Scammer Bitcoin

Unfortunately, Bitcoin scams are probably the vast majority of "bitcoin investments" and this guy is no different. Not only is he hawking bitcoin investment...

Is That Non-Circumvent Provision in Your Marketing Agreement Really Enforceable?

In California,  it depends. California is notorious in the non-compete world for its virtual prohibition and scrutiny of individual non-compete and other types of restrictive...

Growth Hacking Marketing: From the Experts

According to the Oxford dictionary, hacking is ‘the gaining of unauthorized access to data in a system or computer’ and we all know that....

Noteworthy Consent-Based TCPA Win for Lead Generators

Volkswagen launched a marketing campaign.  It paid dealerships nationwide to retain a third party to place service reminder calls to their customers.  Automated technologies...

FTC Enforcement Update: SCOTUS to Decide Agency’s Monetary Restitution Authority

The Supreme Court has started its new term.  FTC defense practitioners are watching closely as the Court is considering issues that may dramatically impact...

What Are LinkedIn Stories?

Instagram Stories and Facebook Stories have been around for a while now but have you heard of the latest social channel to introduce this...

Affiliate Scammer Peter Szatmari ordered to pay over $13.8M for role in binary options fraud

An affiliate marketer named Peter Szatmari must pay more than $13.8 million for fraudulently soliciting investors to open and fund binary options accounts on...

FTC: $145 Million in Coronavirus Fraud since January

More than 200,000 Americans have lost $145 million linked to the COVID-19 pandemic since the start of the year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) reported on...

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