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FTC Takes Action Against Fake Websites Selling Clorox, Lysol

Ohio issues restraining order against 25 counterfeit operators to stop selling products.

At the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request, a federal court in Ohio has issued a temporary restraining order against 25 counterfeit websites that allegedly have been playing on consumers’ COVID-19 pandemic fears to trick them into paying for Clorox and Lysol products that the defendants never deliver. According to the FTC’s complaint, since at least July 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the defendants’ counterfeit websites have been aimed at consumers urgently seeking cleaning and dis...

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