Hoodia Marketers Accused Of $10 Million Fraud In FTC Investigation
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Three Utah businessmen marketing hoodia supplements made nearly $10 million in unauthorized charges to customers' credit cards, according to the Federal Trade Commission's settlement with the defendants and their companies
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