FTC secures Stormy Wellington income claims injunction
The FTC has secured an injunction against Stormy Wellington.
The injunction, which Wellington stipulated to on April 13th, prohibits Wellington from defrauding consumers through deceptive income claims.
Wellington is known to BehindMLM as a promoter of the The Traders Domain Ponzi scheme.
The FTC cites Wellington as a promoter of Total Life Changes and Farmasi.
Defendant Stormy Wellington held the rank of Grand Ambassador in TLC until approximately August 2025, when she left TLC and began participating in Farmasi.
BehindMLM raised pyramid scheme concerns in both our respective reviews.
The FTC cites examples of Wellington’s deceptive income claims in both Total Life Changes and Farmasi;
As a TLC participant, at times, Defendant has represented to recruits that they are likely to earn five to seven figure incomes, stating, for example, “I will help 1000 families make 5-7 figures in the next 90 days to 12 months!”
Defendant has promised new recruits to Farmasi that they will make six to seven figures, saying “I’m telling you right now, no less than six figures, no less.
Repeat that to me. No less than six figures,” and that Defendant will make “60 new millionaires in 2026.”
The FTC notes, when compared to Total Life Changes’ and Farmasi’s Income Disclosure Statements, Wellington’s “claims are deceptive”.
Nearly all TLC participants earn little or no money. TLC’s disclosure, available on its website, states that 76.8% of active participants (23,124 people) did not earn any compensation in calendar year 2023, and that, at most, .4% of all active participants (113 people) earned more than $5,000.
Using the average monthly earnings provided in the Farmasi disclosure, fewer than 1% of its active participants earn an income in the “six figure” range, contrary to Defendant’s claims that participants will earn “no less than six figures.”
Further, the disclosure appears to state that no rank of participant earns an average monthly commission large enough to earn $1,000,000 a year, despite Defendant’s claims that she will make “60 new millionaires” in 2026.
Wellington’s injunction sees her prohibited “against [making] misrepresentations and unsubstantiated claims” to market MLM companies.
Wellington was further ordered to send a copy of the injunction to “all participants in her downline”.
The email notice must use the subject line “Important Notice Regarding Deceptive Earnings Claims from Stormy Wellington.”
Defendant must send the email from an email address that Defendant regularly uses to communicate with her Downline.
Instead of taking responsibility for her actions, Wellington’s only public statement addressing her injunction appears to imply God approves her deception.
Whether Farmasi has taken any action against Wellington is unclear.
I honestly don’t know why the FTC wastes time and our money issuing injunctions. They have no teeth and are almost universally ignored. What’s Wellington going to do, get a real job?
When is the ftc going to issue a TRO and freeze her bank accounts thentake all her money like they did several others in that past few years. ??
I don’t think anyone really understands the current regulatory enforcement environment in the US, and that’s probably by design.
It’s a fair bet the FTC’s Forever Living Products, Stormy Wellington and IM Mastery cases were initiated well before Trump took office.
With IM Mastery they went after everything. With Forever Living Products and Wellington the FTC was happy with only “promise to stop scamming US residents” injunctions.
FTC Commissioners have to sign off on settlements so we can’t solely peg it on which agents get a case.
I suppose at least the FTC is still doing something, although whether we’re in for a drought after these existing cases wrap up is still up in the air. Things seem a lot worse at the SEC and CFTC.