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The brother is selling good products, not bad products, only he is using attractive woman. This is very common in business, but maybe a grey area? I don't know.
Edit: "The Prophet (SAW) says when you are doubtful; “That which is lawful is clear, and that which is unlawful is also quite clear. Between these two is that which is ambiguous, which most people do not know. One who avoids the doubtful safeguards his faith and his honor.”
(Riyadh-us-Salaheen, Hadith 588)
I didn't say he is selling bad products. But his method is totally wrong. Why would you use a beautiful girl's picture without her "consent"? What if that beautiful girl is my sister, my daughter, my wife, my mother? Who knows from where he took it? It's not his, and he has ZERO RIGHT to use it. You're removing the chastity of a chaste women and that's if am not wrong, the 7th major sin in Islam. Far more great of a sin than cheating people. You know how many women in this world commit suicide every now and then because of these so called "halal business" of using their innocent pictures to do haram things? It's a lot, am telling you. So please don't appreciate such haram activities, it will only destroy this world and bring no benefit to the people.
And you rightly said, if something is doubtful, avoiding it is the solution. So when he is doubtful as in now, then he should stop such business or at least, stop using girl's picture illegally. It's cyber crime, if you didn't already know.