Direct Seller Perfectly Posh Ghosts Advertising Self-Regulatory Process, Gets FTC Referral
Executive Summary
The BBB National Programs' Direct Selling Self-Regulatory Council has referred Salt Lake City, Utah-based beauty direct seller Perfect Posh, LLC to the FTC and Utah attorney general after it failed to respond to multiple inquiries over "aggressive" earnings claims.
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