E-Commerce Dropshipping Course Seller Faces FTC Deception Suit

Ecommerce Empire Builders and its owner Peter Prusinowski falsely told customers they could make more than $10,000 per month by building e-commerce stores through the company’s business opportunities and courses that cost thousands of dollars, according to a lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission.

Prusinowski and the company promote a “dropshipping” business model where an online store is created and sells products without keeping them in stock by ordering the product from a third party only once a customer makes a purchase, the FTC said in its complaint filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of ...