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Pending
Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission, Plaintiff, V. Traffic and Funnels, LLC, a Limited Liability Company; We Capital, LLC, a Limited Liability Company, also d/b/a The Sales Mentor and The Sales Mentor, LLC; Evans and Welch, Inc., a Corporation; Evans and Welch Holdings, LLC, a Limited Liability Company; Taylor A. Welch, Individually and as an Officer of Traffic and Funnels, LLC; WE Capital, LLC; Evans and Welch, Inc.; and Evans and Welch Holdings, LLC; Christopher A. Evans, Individually and as an Officer of Traffic and Funnels, LLC; WE Capital, LLC; Evans and Welch, Inc.; and Evans and Welch Holdings, LLC; Payton Welch, Individually; and Ashton Shanks, Individually and as an Officer of Evans and Welch, Inc., Defendants.
FTC Matter/File Number
2223071
Civil Action Number
3:23-cv-01277
Â鶹´«Ã½ Court
Middle District of Tennessee

Case Summary

The Â鶹´«Ã½ Trade Commission has obtained proposed orders against the operators of a wide-ranging scheme known as “The Sales Mentor†that made millions by falsely promising consumers that they could make big money from telemarketing sales.

The defendants have agreed to proposed court orders that would require them to pay a total of $1 million for consumer refunds.

In a federal court complaint, the FTC charged the Tennessee-based group of companies, their owners, their officers, and a former sales director with deceiving consumers to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars for supposed telemarketing training programs that rarely, if ever, delivered on what was promised. In addition, the FTC said the companies continued to make deceptive earnings claims even after they received the FTC’s Notices of Penalty Offenses on money-making opportunities and on endorsements and testimonials warning them that such conduct is illegal.