The company behind an alleged scam medical conference held in Melbourne earlier this year has been banned from making false claims in online advertising it uses to lure customers.
The US District Court District of Nevada approved a preliminary injunction sought by the US trade watchdog which prohibits Conference Series, OMICS Group and iMedPub – and the companies’ director Srinubabu Gedela – from making misrepresentations about their international conferences and online journals.
The injunction will have ramifications for all online marketing by the India-based companies, which the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleges have ripped off consumers to the tune of over $26 million through “unfair and deceptive practices”.
OMICS publishes 700 open-access journals and Conference Series runs thousands of conferences across the globe.
The company, which is advertising 52 conferences in Australia in 2018, has already been the subject of at least two complaints to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
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