Spartan Mosquito Eradicator Is A Scam, Class Action Lawsuit Claims

A company promising to exterminate pests faces legal action by customers who bought their Spartan Mosquito Eradicator.

“The Spartan Mosquito Eradicator is a complete scam,” a class action lawsuit filed in New York’s Eastern District states. 

The plaintiff claims that the makers of the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator are fraudulently and deceptively selling these products and are being unjustly enriched as a result.

Specifically, the class action lawsuit claims AC2T Inc., and its lab partner, Bonner Analytical, knowingly marketed the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator despite evidence showing it was useless.   

In 2019, plaintiff Kalman Rosenfeld says he went to a Brooklyn Home Depot to buy a Spartan Mosquito Eradicator. In the lawsuit, Rosenfeld says he believed the statements on the product promising mosquito elimination in “90 days,” a “decreased population in 15 days” and “do-it-yourself mosquito control.”

AC2T claims the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator contains a solution that “kills the mosquitoes before they can breed,” according to the class action lawsuit. 

The company elaborates further on their product, explaining how “its crystalline structure ‘cuts’ their stomach, causing it to rupture. The fermentation process also continues after mosquitoes ingest the mixture, and CO2 production in the mosquito also causes the stomach to rupture.”

“Unfortunately for consumers, however, each of these representations is false and misleading,” Rosenfeld said. The Spartan Mosquito Eradicator “does not kill mosquitoes or decrease mosquito populations.”

The plaintiff argues several “independent” and “peer-reviewed” studies confirm these claims. 

One of those studies, according to the class action lawsuit, was published in the Journal of the Florida Mosquito Control Association. 

Researchers found the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator has three active ingredients: Salt, yeast and sugar. They conclude the product “does not live up to the representations.” 

The plaintiff contends that instead of rupturing the pest as promised, “mosquitoes simply urinate the salt out – just like other animals.” 

Customers who buy the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator are essentially buying yeast, sugar and salt, the class action lawsuit alleges. Water is added after purchase. 

“In fact, once water is added, the Product’s salt content is remarkably close to the salt content in human blood,” the plaintiff said. 

Additional research is cited by the plaintiff in the class action lawsuit. 

One study conducted by the School of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences at the University of Mississippi showed “there are no data that have tested the effectiveness of salt as a substance to kill mosquitoes,” according to court documents. 

In that study, researchers warned while federal and state law “do not require efficacy data to support claims” they advised “caution that relying on an approach that has no scientific basis” is unwise.

Even more, according to the plaintiffs, Spartan Mosquito Eradicator claims “may result in a false sense of security for homeowners, which may be dangerous in areas where mosquitoes could potentially be transmitting pathogens.”

The class action lawsuit points to even more research refuting salt’s efficacy in killing mosquitoes. 

Findings in one of those studies showed “mosquitoes have taste receptors and are capable of detecting a food’s salt content. If a food or liquid is too salty, mosquitoes will not consume it and will not lay eggs there.” 

Another study found “consumption of salt content in mosquitoes causes them to consume more blood than they otherwise would have.”

Salt isn’t the only worthless aspect to the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator, either, according to the plaintiff, calling claims that its secondary ingredients cause mosquitoes to explode “absurdly misguided.”

In fact, the plaintiff says mosquitoes prefer yeasty, sugary food naturally in the form of rotting fruit, adding further that yeast “is also already present in mosquitoes’ intestinal microbiota.”

The class action lawsuit cites the Mosquito Illness Alliance, who also agrees this “yeast trap design” has “been repeatedly debunked by independent research” and have even gone so far as to list the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator first in their list of scams.

A lab who is partnering with the makers of the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator are also included in this class action lawsuit, according to the plaintiff, because they allegedly help AC2T, Inc. with “bogus studies.” 

The class action lawsuit points to one scientist who refused to work with Bonner Analytical Testing Co. after being required to sign a non-disclosure agreement. 

The plaintiff further alleges the makers of the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator have “suppressed publication of these findings using nondisclosure agreements and threats to the scientists.”

The class action lawsuit accuses AC2T, Inc. founder Jeremy Hirsch of “personal threats” and “menacing communication”  towards Colin Purrington, a researcher who published his findings on the Spartan Mosquito Eradicator online and posted a review on Amazon.  

The class action officially accuses AC2T, Inc., Bonner Analytical Testing Co and founder Jeremy Hirsch of deceptive practice, false advertising, unjust enrichment, breach of warranty and fraud. 

“If this claim of having solved one of mankind’s most vexing problems and greatest health challenges using just sugar, salt, and yeast sounds too good be true, that is because it is,” the plaintiff said. 

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Counsel representing the plaintiffs in this case are Scott A. Bursor, Yitzchak Kopel and Alec M. Leslie of Bursor & Fisher PA.

The Spartan Mosquito Eradicator Class Action Lawsuit is Rosenfeld v. AC2T Inc., Case No. 1:20-cv-04662, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. 

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