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FTC Hits Digital Altitude – Aspire With A Temporary Restraining Order

According to their website:
“Digital Altitude teach digital entrepreneurs how to start and grow a profitable online business with our unique coaching products and world class live events.”
“You want to start an online business… But you don’t know where to start. Want to learn to turn your Passion into Profits? Or maybe you have already started one and don’t know what to do next.
 
In Aspire, you will gain access to resources that will set you on the right track.”
The FTC:
At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a federal court has temporarily halted an operation that took more than $14 million from consumers seeking to start their own online business.
The operation misrepresented that its purported business coaching program would enable consumers to earn substantial income, such as “six figures in 90 days or less.”
According to the FTC, the defendants induced consumers to pay for a series of tiered memberships with increasing fees, falsely claiming that consumers would learn how to make substantial income with an online business.
They promised consumers they would receive individualized coaching from successful marketers that would provide what they needed to build a successful business, but, in reality, these were merely salespeople selling higher membership levels in the defendants’

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