WASHINGTON (AFP) - US regulators Tuesday announced a crackdown on websites selling acai berry weight loss products with false visas such as CNN, Fox News and USA Today news sites.
The Federal Trade Commission said that he asked federal courts to freeze the assets of 10 operations using tactics "allegedly misleading" as the Web sites of false news to market their products.
Web sites are designed to appear as if they are the testimony of the new legitimate collection agencies.
"But in reality, the sites are simply advertisements aims to deceptively urging consumers to purchase products featured acai berry weight loss", said the FTC.
"Almost everything about these sites is fake", David Vladeck, Director of the FTC Consumer Protection Bureau, said in a statement.
"The results of weight loss, the so-called investigations, journalists, the testimony of consumption and the attempt to portray a goal, journalistic endeavor," said Vladeck.
Sites often include misleading names and logos of the media such as ABC, Fox News, CBS, CNN, USA Today, and Consumer Reports.
A photograph of Melissa Theuriau photogenic French TV presenter is also often used to illustrate the sites, even if it has no affiliation with any of them.
The FTC said that he has received numerous complaints from consumers who spent up to $100 for weight loss products after having been misled by the sites.
He said he will ask the courts to force the companies to provide rebates to consumers who bought the supplements and other products.
The FTC said that the defendants have probably received more than 10 million dollars in commissions dishonestly across the sites.
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