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Federal Trade Commission Plaintiff, File Under Seal v. Ecom Genie Consul Ting LLC, a Limited Liability Company; Lunar Capital Ventures LLC, a Limited Liability Company, also dba Lunar Automation; Profit Able Automation, LLC, a Limited Liability Company; Steven J. Mayer, Individually and as an Officer and Owner of Lunar Capital Ventures LLC and Ecom Genie Consulting, LLC; Trevor Duffy Young, Individually and as an Officer of Profitable Automation, LLC; and Wessman Baiz, Individually; Defendants, and Alpine Mangement Group Inc., a Corporation; Baiz Sales, LLC, a Limited Liability Company; Salespreneurs, LLC, a Limited Liability Company; and Vicenza Capital Corp., a Corporation, Formerly known as Steven Ma Yer Lux Corp., a Corporation; Relief Defendants.

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As a result of a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit, a federal court has temporarily shut down the operations of a business opportunity scam that has taken more than $12 million from consumers with false promises of big returns selling goods through Amazon and Walmart.

According to a complaint filed by the FTC, since at least 2022, the scheme operated under the names Lunar Capital Ventures, Ecom Genie and Profitable Automation, and before that as the now-dissolved company Valiant Consultants Inc. Under each of these names, the scheme has made enticing but bogus claims that consumers could earn lavish profits by paying tens of thousands of dollars to start online e-commerce businesses. The promised earnings rarely, if ever, materialize, and most consumers lose substantial amounts of money.

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