{"id":189,"date":"2006-05-18T06:41:07","date_gmt":"2006-05-18T12:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequence-inc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=189"},"modified":"2010-06-12T21:39:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T03:39:07","slug":"189","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/189\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas pill scam busted in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has filed a lawsuit against [tag]BioPerformance[\/tag] Inc. He has also obtained a temporary restraining order to stop the company from operating.  BioPerformance is an illegal [tag]pyramid scheme[\/tag] that markets fuel pills with false claims.<\/p>\n<p>The company has stated that the [tag]fuel pill[\/tag]s increase gas mileage, saving consumers money.   The company claims their [tag]gasoline pill[\/tag]s and powders are non-toxic and can increase fuel efficiency by 30 percent.  Tests show, however, that the pill is the chemical equivalent of toxic mothballs and does NOT increase gas mileage.<\/p>\n<p>Since the product being sold by BioPerformance is bogus, then the company is nothing more than an illegal pyramid scheme.   Buy-ins costs dealers $300 to $500, and money is earned by recruiting more members.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the [tag]fraud[\/tag] in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oag.state.tx.us\/oagNews\/release.php?id=1569\">attorney general&#8217;s press release here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has filed a lawsuit against [tag]BioPerformance[\/tag] Inc. He has also obtained a temporary restraining order to stop the company from operating. BioPerformance is an illegal [tag]pyramid scheme[\/tag] that markets fuel pills with false claims. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6Z0e-189","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}