Posted by Virus Bulletin on May 11, 2005
FTC settles a case against spammers peddling 'fuel-saving' product
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by the FTC against the marketers and resellers of bogus fuel-saving products Fuel MAX and Super FuelMax.
The FTC alleged that the marketers of the Fuel MAX products made false claims about the product's ability to save fuel, increase fuel mileage and reduce emissions.
The false claims alone violated the CAN-SPAM Act, but in addition, the FTC charged that by spoofing the return address of (spam) emails, and by failing to provide a valid physical postal address with those emails, the products' marketers had, once again, violated the CAN-SPAM Act.
As part of the settlement Mark C. Ayoub, his companies, Diverse Marketing Group, Inc., and Diverse Marketing Group LLC; and Floyd and Marcia Tassin and their company, Net Marketing Croup LLC, were barred from making misrepresentations in connection with any product or service sold over the Internet.
Posted on 11 May 2005 by Virus Bulletin
