FTC sends second payment to AdvoCare distributors
The FTC is sending a second round of payments to AdvoCare distributors who lost money as a result of the AdvoCare pyramid scheme.
The FTC sued AdvoCare in 2019, alleging that the company ran an illegal pyramid scheme and falsely claimed that its distributors could earn significant income selling health and wellness products. According to the FTC's lawsuit, AdvoCare's reward system pushed distributors to focus on recruiting new distributors rather than selling products to customers and pressured them to purchase large quantities of AdvoCare products—even when they couldn’t sell the products. The company also made exaggerated claims about how much money people could make. In fact, most AdvoCare distributors lost money.
Not all AdvoCare distributors are eligible for a payment from the settlement. You may be eligible if you reached Advisor level, spent much more on products than you got in rewards, and met other criteria.
The FTC first sent payments in May 2022, which resulted in more than $137.8 million in refunds. Because there is still money remaining in the fund, the FTC is sending 170,571 payments totaling more than $11.4 million to people who accepted their first payment.
If you got a check, please cash it within 90 days.
If you got a PayPal payment, please accept it within 30 days.
You can find answers to common questions about refund payments on our FAQ page. If you have any other questions, please call the refund administrator, Analytics Consulting, at 1-855-744-1802.