You’ve seen the ad a thousand times on the Internet: “1 Tip for a Tiny Belly” says the hand-lettered headline above the crudely drawn swelling-and-shrinking belly. “Cut down a bit of your belly everyday following this one weird tip,” it goes on to say. If starvation caused by having funds continuously siphoned from your bank account counts as a weight loss program, then maybe the ad lives up to its claim. But otherwise, no, it’s a scam, according to the FTC.
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Online Ad Scams, Part 1: Tip for a Tiny Belly and Other Snake Oil
Posted by: Pam Baker September 16, 2011 05:00 AMYou’ve seen the ad a thousand times on the Internet: “1 Tip for a Tiny Belly” says the hand-lettered headline above the crudely drawn swelling-and-shrinking belly. “Cut down a bit of your belly everyday following this one weird tip,” it goes on to say. If starvation caused by having funds continuously siphoned from your bank account counts as a weight loss program, then maybe the ad lives up to its claim. But otherwise, no, it’s a scam, according to the FTC.