Three men who built a crypto platform on the promise of safety just finished paying the FTC $16.5 million between them. The people who believed the promise lost billions. This is how the word "safe" was engineered into a marketing plan.
The FTC moved in April 2026 against three sets of high-level MLM recruiters whose pitches promised six and seven figures. The companies' own income disclosures told a different story to anyone who could find them.
Cox Media Group will pay $880,000 to settle FTC charges that it sold small businesses an AI service it claimed listened to consumers through their phones. The service did not listen. It resold email lists.
For eight years, IM Mastery Academy sold young people a trading education backed by Bentleys and Bulgari watches. The FTC says the trainers had no trading records, the claims were baseless, and the lifestyle was the product. The receipts are now in receivership.
Stormy Wellington built a following of hundreds of thousands on a single promise: that ordinary people could become millionaires if they just believed hard enough and signed up fast enough. The income disclosures from the companies she recruited for told a different story, and the Federal Trade Commission was reading them.