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Oprah and Dr. OZ Going After Credit Card Scammers

Who Use Fake Celebrity Endorsements

         

Jane_Doe

5:27 pm on Aug 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Yahoo news is reporting that Oprah and Dr. Oz are going after the people behind the credit card scam ads for weight loss and beauty products that use fake celebrity endorsements.

Google banned most of these Adsense ads awhile back after posters here complained about them, but some of the ads have been all over the place for months on other networks.

wyweb

5:33 pm on Aug 20, 2009 (gmt 0)



Well if Oprah's on the job I'm not worried at all.

hannamyluv

8:29 pm on Aug 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

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I would feel better if, say, oh, the FTC were looking at it, since it is their realm of enforcement...

But, since they seem utterly oblivious, it is nice that someone is paying attention.

LifeinAsia

9:05 pm on Aug 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Will Oprah start a "Scam of the Month" club?

netmeg

9:13 pm on Aug 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

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I think the FTC *is* looking at the overall issue.

But for Oprah and Dr. Oz, this time it's *personal*

ken_b

9:15 pm on Aug 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Dr. Oz ?

Apparently I need to turn the TV on more often, or get out more, or... ?

LifeinAsia

10:01 pm on Aug 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

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ken_b,

He's the Wizard's older brother.

Jane_Doe

11:39 pm on Aug 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Apparently I need to turn the TV on more often, or get out more, or... ?

He's the drug company shill [nytimes.com] who wears surgical scrubs to go on Oprah's TV show, like he just rushed over to the studio from performing an emergency appendectomy or something.

hannamyluv

3:08 am on Aug 21, 2009 (gmt 0)

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I think the FTC *is* looking at the overall issue.

See, this is what I love about the internet. We have a company blatantly breaking the law on just abouty every major website on the web. It is the equivelent of a major corporation running ads on network TV and major cable stations for a quack product. A total newbie could document the laws they are breaking. And what does the FTC do... they look into making a new law that they will also only vaugely enforce because they don't still have a clue about the web.

Really, I just want the FTC to enforce the current laws on blatant offenders. They don't need to make new ones.

WolfLover

4:15 am on Aug 22, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Well if Oprah's on the job I'm not worried at all.

wyweb, I hope this was your dry sense of humor? LOL!