Settlement reached in FTC vs Fuel MAX case
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.
11 May 2005
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