‘Weight Loss Pill’ Sellers Ordered to Stop Spamming

Feb. 8, 2016, 11:34 PM UTC

Sellers of supposed weight loss supplements must stop sending illegal spam e-mails and making misleading efficacy claims online to market their products, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California ordered (FTC v. Sale Slash, LLC, C.D. Cal., CV15-03107, stipulated order entered 2/3/16).

The order settles Federal Trade Commission allegations that California-based Sale Slash LLC and five other defendants sent millions of unsolicited commercial e-mail messages and used fake news websites with phony celebrity endorsements to market unproven diet pills.

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