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FTC Sues Genesis Tech and Six Individuals, Alleging Deceptive Subscription Practices
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Genesis Tech and six individuals, alleging the company used shell companies to market apps and collected nearly $250 million in revenue from 2023 to mid-2025.
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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
U.S. Consumers. The five named subsidiaries are Amo Apps Limited, GuruDocs Limited, Bramol Limited, Obrio Limited, and Koflimin Limited. The apps include MadMuscles, Harna, and Unimeal from Amo Apps Limited; PDF Guru and PDF Master from GuruDocs Limited; Lumi from Bramol Limited; Nebula from Obrio Limited; and Wisey from Koflimin Limited.
From early 2023 to mid-2025, the five companies generated nearly $250 million in global revenue. In the 12 months ending September 2025, transactions through the company’s connected PayPal accounts totaled nearly $700 million. Genesis Tech created multiple merchant accounts and transferred funds across corporate affiliates to avoid fraud monitoring, the complaint states.
The apps offered easy sign-up but difficult cancellation, with auto-renewing subscriptions and unauthorized charges. The FTC alleges violations of the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act. The six named individual defendants are Stamatis Skianis, Oksana Kucher, Iryna Oleksyn, Olga Garbuzenko, Rostyslav Ivanitsa, and Viktoriia Savchuk.
TechCrunch contacted Genesis Tech via publicly listed subsidiary email addresses and received no immediate comment. The FTC has previously investigated and settled cases involving NGL, Match, Handy, HyperBeard, Tapjoy, and X-Mode.
