If you promote shady offers CPA which are consumers, include false testimony or represent falsely products to try to make a sale, you personally could be prosecuted. Not only that, but the network that you could promote frozen assets and should not be able to pay you one of your commissions.
In still another case involving affiliates of CPA unethical, the FTC filed suit against companies that use false news sites to promote products such as Acai. One of the companies being sued is a popular subsidiary network familiar to most of its affiliates. Note: If you work with this network, you cannot get paid because the FTC strives to freeze their assets. (History and links below).
But first I wanted to emphasize that it is not just networks which are get busted, but affiliates are too. The Attorney General of Chicago sued comes directly a marketing affiliate through this repression of the FTC.
Chicago Attorney General SUES affiliate for Acai scam
Chicago--Attorney General Lisa Madigan sued today a man from Chicago area for marketing fraudulent acai berry a diet diet patterns online, in a national crackdown with the Federal Trade Commission against marketing specialists affiliated which con consumers purchasing products of loss through Web sites false news of weight.
The FTC had just a press conference - here are the latest press release.
The FTC complaints allege that the typical fake news sites have titles such as "6 news press releases", "Alert health news from health", or "Health 5 Beat Health News." Sites often include the names and logos of major media - such as ABC, Fox News, CBS, CNN, USA Today, and Consumer Reports - and represent falsely that the reports on sites have been seen on these networks. Proclaims a headline of inquiry which appear on one of these sites "" Acai Berry diet Exposed: Miracle diet or scam? "" The sub-headline reads, "" a new series: ' food trends: a look at America's top diets, we examine the advice to consumers for a diet diet during a recession. "" The following article aims to document the experience of first-hand the journalist with acai berry supplements - usually claiming to have lost 25 pounds in four weeks.
"Almost everything on these sites is false, said David Vladeck, Director of the FTC Consumer Protection Bureau." The results of weight loss, the so-called investigations, journalists, the testimony of consumption and the attempt to portray an objective, journalistic effort. »
The following companies have been appointed in the prosecution of FTC:
-Intermark Communications, Inc. DBA Copeac and IMM Interactive
-Beony International LLC. Ambervine Marketing LLC and Encastle Inc.
-TL advertising; Circa direct LLC; Coulomb Media, Inc. DLXM, LLC. Lead, expose, Inc. and Uptown Media, Inc..
The only name I recognize is Media Intermark AKA Copeac, a very well known affiliate network.
According to the FTC press release above "the FTC seeks to permanently prevent this misleading practice and asked courts to freeze the assets of pending trial operations.". So I wonder if they will be able to pay affiliate commissions towards?
As I always say "market with integrity and all the world wins!" If you are marketing the spammy scammy offers and a dealer gets busted and cannot pay you, then you understand that you deserve. Not only this, but you could get yourself in trouble. It is simply not worth!
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