FTC, Florida Attorney General Charge Promoters of Bogus Alcohol Cure
April 3rd, 2010. Published under Business Scams, Fraud, Scams. No Comments.
Defendants Publicly Revealed Some Consumers’ Alcoholism, Complaint Alleges The Federal Trade Commission is suing a company that touted a phony cure for alcoholism, charging that it tricked hundreds of problem drinkers into paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for a service prescribing ineffective concoctions of natural supplements, and then threatened to reveal the drinkers’ alcohol problems if they canceled their memberships. Filed jointly with the state of Florida in federal district court, the complaint alleges that the company lured consumers with deceptive claims about its “Permanent Cure” program.