The FTC has added VOZ Journey to the record of defendants in its Success By Well being fraud lawsuit.
VOZ Journey was added as per a second amended grievance, filed on September twenty third.
In the grievance, the FTC alleges VOZ Journey was launched by defendants Jay Noland, Lina Noland, Scott Harris and Thomas Sacca.
In October 2019, Defendants introduced their “VOZ Journey” program. Defendants charged customers $1,000-$2,795 to grow to be VOZ Journey members.
In change, customers acquired the best to promote discounted journey via a by no means launched reserving platform and to earn rewards primarily based on their means to recruit others prepared to pay the steep membership charge.
The FTC alleges VOZ Journey was introduced following a decline in Success By Well being recruitment all through 2019.
Jay Noland described VOZ as a “journey product of Success By Well being owned by Success By Media.”
Defendants promoted the chance to earn giant financial rewards in VOZ, via the six-tier fee construction, by recruiting giant groups.
In a single VOZ Journey coaching video cited by the FTC, Thomas Sacca touted potential annual earnings of over $1.5 million.
Sacca said: “There can be VOZ Journey [members] making over $1.53 [million] per yr.”
After including that he couldn’t “assure you earnings in any means, form, kind, or vogue,” Sacca proceeded to “assure you in case you go to work, you’re gonna change your life.”
Regardless of charging $1000 and $2495 respectively for for affiliate “motion” and “founders” packs, VOZ Journey by no means launched.
There have been no bodily VOZ “packs,” and customers who purchased “packs” by no means acquired any precise services or products.
As an alternative, they earned the best to obtain rewards by recruiting further customers to spend $1,000 or extra on membership packs.
On December 18th, 2019, Jay Noland introduced VOZ Journey’s prelaunch marketing campaign had ended.
On December twentieth Noland suggested associates VOZ Journey wouldn’t launch that month.
The launch delay was known as a “strategic timing launch announcement”.
Noland claimed he had simply signed a “multibillion greenback inked deal,” which was the “greatest journey deal ever.”
Noland claimed that the deal would “put us able to the place we actually have probably the most unfair benefit in all of journey.”
A brand new launch date between January tenth to fifteenth was circulated.
Opposite to Noland’s declare, the FTC’s investigation would later reveal there was in reality no “multibillion greenback deal”.
After the launch delay announcement, VOZ Journey affiliate membership pricing was jacked as much as $1295 and $2795.
On January sixth, VOZ Journey introduced it had terminated its contract with its booking-platform vendor.
VOZ Journey’s launch date was thus suspended indefinitely.
Relatively than inform its associates of the scenario although, the Success By Well being defendants
merely modified their messaging. On a January 8 convention name with VOZ members, Noland defined that VOZ was not only a “low cost wholesale journey program,” however as an alternative was about “freedom,” “experiences,” and “reminiscences.”
Regardless of VOZ Journey now having nothing to do with journey, recruitment continued.
Defendants continued to push customers to pay over $1,000 to enroll as VOZ Journey members and to recruit others to do the identical.
The FTC was granted a TRO in opposition to Success By Well being and the person defendants on January thirteenth.
As of the Courtroom’s January 13, 2020 TRO, Defendants had not retained a brand new vendor to construct the VOZ reserving platform.
The FTC alleges Noland and his co-defendants bought “roughly $1 million” in VOZ Journey affiliate memberships.
The FTC’s case in opposition to Success By Well being continues…