Category: DSA

• • 12 21

  • MLM Misleading Income Claims

    Below is tina.org's best post. Ever (even though it doesn't touch the largest problem for the MLM scams that have one, the tool scam). While the income claim issue clearly falls under the FTC Section 5 federal law prohibiting https://beachyspharm... read more

• • 08 05

  • Slimy Politicians Try To “Slip A Mickey” In Making Illegal Pyramids Legal

    UPDATE #3: If it wasn't already obvious, the DSA (Don't Sell Anything) lobby group supports this legislation, and probably wrote it: read more

• • 02 21

  • Open Letter To The FTC

    In reponse to the FTC's response to the DSA (Link: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_statements/1068663/response_to_dsa_letter_ramirez.pdf, Document: read more

• • 11 09

  • MLMs Need Disease Cure Claims To Survive

    As pointed out elsewhere on this website, MLM products are usually overpriced, and a favorite method of overcoming this is to simply claim the products cure all kinds of diseases, including the "big boys" Amway and Herbalife, as shown here: read more

• • 11 07

  • DSA Proves They Don’t Enforce Their Own Health Claims Rules

    As if we didn't already suspect widespread DSA nonenforcement of MLM health claims and the DSA's "self regulation" was total BS, here's the proof. Of course, the list includes the two largest MLM scams on the planet, Amway and Herbalife: https://www.truthinadvertising.org/dsa-ignoring-illegal-hea... read more

• • 10 24

  • DSA Trying To Push MLM Towards European/HR5230 Model

    Update: Here's the FTC Chairperson's DSA speech, it isn't looking good for H.R. 5230, or any MLM scam like Amway and Herbalife, either. Too bad the FTC still doesn't "get" the tool scam: ... read more

• • 05 30

  • H.R. 5230 and The Fallacy of MLM

    A new bill is being circulated that, passed as is, would legalize illegal pyramids. It is H.R. 5230: https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr5230/BILLS-114hr5230ih.pdf The DSA is behind it, and probably wrote it: read more

• • 03 05

  • LegalShield Dumps DSA

    Following Avon and Tupperware in recent years, now LegalShield has now quit the DSA, and instead of leaving thinly cloaked messages like by the other two MLMs, Legal Shield put it on the line:  https://... read more