Is YTB Travel Dead In 2009? (YTB Travel Scam)

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YTB Travel started having serious difficulties starting in 2008 when they were sued by the state of California.
Law suits are pending in Illinois and there is a Federal class action suit. Ytb Travel will definitly not doing business as usual and many wonder if this is the end for YTB Travel.
YourTravelBiz.com operates a gigantic pyramid scheme that is immensely profitable to a few individuals on top and a complete rip-off for most everyone else, Attorney General Brown charged. Todays lawsuit seeks to shut down the companys unlawful operation before more people are exploited by the scam.
Brown charges the company, its affiliates and the companys founders J. Lloyd Tomer, J. Scott Tomer, J. Kim Sorensen and Andrew Cauthen with operating an endless chain scheme, an unlawful pyramid in which a person pays money for the chance to receive money by recruiting new members to join the pyramid.
Brown also charges the company with unfair business practices and false advertising practices including deceptive claims that members can earn millions of dollars with the company, operating without filing legally mandated documents with the attorney general and the Department of Corporations and selling an illegal travel discount program.
John Frenaye, a veteran agent and critic of YTB, said the states move was a decisive win for travel agents and the travel industry and could go a long way to end the multilevel marketing challenge to the industry. Last year, Frenaye collected more than 2,700 signatures from agents and suppliers opposing multilevel marketing.
In a statement, the attorney general said YourTravelBiz.com and its affiliates operate an illegal pyramid scheme that only benefits members if and when they find enough new members to join the scam. Once enrolled, members who join the pyramid scheme earn compensation for each new person they enlist, regardless of whether they sell any travel. The company lures new members by offering huge income opportunities through online travel agencies, yet the typical person actually makes nothing selling travel.
According to company records, there were over 200,000 members in 2007 who typically pay more than $1,000 per year—$449.95 to set up an ‘online travel agency’ with a monthly fee of $49.95. In 2007, only 38 percent of the companys members made any travel commissions. For the minority of members who made any travel commission in 2007, the median income was $39—less than one months cost to keep the website. There are at least 139,000 of the companys travel websites, all virtually identical, on the Internet.
YourTravelBizs extensive marketing materials include videos of people driving Porsches and other luxury cars, holding $10,000 checks and claiming to be raking in millions of dollars in profits. The company advertises through its Website, www.ytb.com, and at conventions, workshops and nationwide sales meetings that have been held in California locations such as Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco and San Diego.
Under Californias unfair business practices statute, the company is liable for $2,500 per violation of law, the statement said. Attorney General Brown is suing YourTravelBiz.com to get a court order that: Bars the company from making false or misleading statements and assesses a civil penalty of at least $15,000,000 and at least $10,000,000 in restitution for Californians who were ripped off by the company.
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