{"id":4198,"date":"2009-11-19T18:16:27","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T00:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?p=4198"},"modified":"2011-10-08T23:03:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T04:03:18","slug":"ftc-taking-action-against-pre-paid-legal-services-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/ftc-taking-action-against-pre-paid-legal-services-inc\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC Taking Action Against Pre-Paid Legal Services Inc."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/find.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload alignright size-full wp-image-4236\" title=\"find\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/find.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/find.jpg\" alt=\"find\" width=\"114\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27114%27%20height%3D%27114%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20114%20114%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27114%27%20height%3D%27114%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/find-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/find.jpg 200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><\/a>Much to my surprise, the Federal Trade Commission appears to be taking action against Pre-Paid Legal Services (NYSE:PPD) for making <strong>misleading representations<\/strong> in connection with its Identity Theft Shield and Affirmative Defense Response System products. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The company is named, along with CEO Harland Stonecipher anbd Chief Marketing Officer Mark Brown. The FTC seeks not only to take away the money Pre-Paid Legal made on these services, but also permanent injunctive relief.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/pre-paid-legal-services-announces-ftc-developments-70524402.html\">the company&#8217;s press release<\/a> made no mention of all the work done by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyramidschemealert.org\/PSAMain\/news\/PPL.Analysis.2.09pdf.pdf\">Robert FitzPatrick of Pyramid Scheme Aler<\/a>t and <a href=\"http:\/\/ponzipluspyramidequalsprepaid.com\/\">Barry Minkow of Fraud Discovery Institute<\/a>, who both worked vigorously to expose the frauds being perpetrated on consumers by Pre-Paid Legal.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the work of both Robert and Barry, which I participated in, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/?s=pre-paid+legal&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;=Go\">on this blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much to my surprise, the Federal Trade Commission appears to be taking action against Pre-Paid Legal Services (NYSE:PPD) for making misleading representations in connection with its Identity Theft Shield and Affirmative Defense Response System products.<\/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-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pyramid-schemes-mlm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-15I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","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=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}