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14 Μαΐ 2009 · YTB lured consumers into its travel business with false promises of wealth and deceptive marketing. YTB charged customers $449.95 for the purchase of a website, and $49.95 a month to operate it. In total, consumers paid YTB over $1,000 in the first year of operation.
Scams: Content offering cash gifts, “get rich quick” schemes, or pyramid schemes (sending money without a tangible product in a pyramid structure). Incentivization Spam: Content that sells...
Around the same time, several former YTB agents filed a class-action lawsuit that alleged the company was an illegal pyramid scheme. The lawsuit says that the company "claims to sell travel services, but said company's main business is inducing others to become travel agents."
5 Αυγ 2008 · LOS ANGELES--California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced a lawsuit against YourTravelBiz.com for operating a 'gigantic pyramid scheme' that recruited tens of thousands of members with deceptive claims that members could earn huge sums of money through its online travel agencies.
But YTB went through a couple of lawsuits. Between 2006 and 2009, the company was the subject of several lawsuits and investigations in California, Illinois, and Rhode Island, alleging the company to be using deceptive marketing and being a pyramid scheme.
5 Αυγ 2008 · In a statement, the attorney general said YourTravelBiz.com and its affiliates operate an illegal pyramid scheme that only benefits members if and when they find enough new members to join the...
The prosecution of YTB should be a wake-up call to consumers that MLM pyramid frauds can look legitimate and DSA membership is no guarantee of legitimacy. YTB met all the standards that the DSA, BBB, the FTC and the news media regularly tell consumers to look for when examining MLMs.
