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Asian Svelteness Tea Scam - another MBE location |
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"I Suddenly Lost 54 Pounds and Dropped
Six Dress Sizes without any effort....
...and Kept the Weight off for 2 years!"
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Phil Kaplan's Radio Show
Listen to the show.
Asian Svelteness Tea scam kicks off Phil's broadcast on October 19, 2002. Phil's show is broadcast every Saturday live from Florida at 9:00 a.m. Eastern time. He can not believe that the Canadian government does nothing to control these bogus claims. They change names, they are from Canada, and the scams go on and on and on. He also traces the phone number to PhytoPharma, another huge Canadian scam.
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Genesis Health Institute (not a real institute by the way), has been around for a few years under various guises. Why would someone use a Mail Boxes Etc. location to scam the public? I don't know about you, but part of the answer to that could be that MBE really doesn't care, unless the police, or the Competion Bureau come to their doors with a search warrant or court order.
Their track record is pretty bad when it comes to welcoming diet scammers, especially in Toronto. They rent them a comfortable "Suite" in Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, Cornwall, Niagara Falls, or some other backwater town in Canada, or upstate New York. Then the renters wait for the money to pour in.
In other words, they want you to believe that they are a mainstream business, with corporate offices, a large staff of busy beavers filling orders for all those yearning to be lean. Instead the dumb consumer will just give their toll-free number a buzz or mail them a check, only to find themselves sending money God only knows where. instead of Suite 459.
The phone number is 866-362-1191. That's a real coincidence, because that number, probably in Hamilton, Ontario, is also the number used by another diet scammers that we have highlighted, Biotonic Phytotrim.
In the U.S., the government requires businesses that use private mail boxes, or mail receiving/forwarding locations to indicate one of the following.
They must indicate either # or PMB in their address.
The stupid Canadian government provides the public with absolutely zero consumer protection. Anything goes up here, and the FTC in the U.S. has taken it upon themselves to attack Canadian scammers if they have operations in the States.
Unfortunately, those of us up here in Canada look like fools to the rest of the world. Our government rarely helps when the public complains.
Watch your weekend
newspaper coupon inserts. We expect ot receive many complaints on this one, and we thank you for your help. This one is real loser folks, and I don't mean it will help you lose weight. You will lose your money, and that's for sure.
Prove to me that it's not a scam!!!
Please forgive the TYPOS here. They were all made by their staff. I can't believe that these folks don't know how to spell in English. But, then again, maybe they are really from Quebec. That may explain a lot of things here.
- Phone number same as PhytoTrim - (Inbound telemarketers take your orders, and try to sell you, but take no responsibility if the stuff is bogus.)
- No web site listed (This demonstrates complete contempt for the rights of consumers)
- No actual ingredients listed - but they were "Secret herbal" ingredients -
(I wonder what these folks have been doing for the last 2,000 years. )
- Wild claims like: "Let this herb-based formula Wipe out your unwanted pounds forever." (It sounds like they are at war with your body, plus it will last forever. FAT CHANCE!)
- "Eliminates more than 91% of absorbed sugars. You may continue to eat your favourite deserts without gaining weight." - ( I think they meant "desserts". Otherwise you would have a lot of sand in your BMs.)
- "Doubles the metabolic rate to burn digested food in your intestine, preventing food from staying in your stomach for more than 24 hours." (The stomach actually only holds food for an hour or so. I think they better go back to the internet to learn some basic Physiology.)
- "Instant apetite control. Very effective in keeping you from snacking between meals." - (Well, how do they do that? Are there potent laxatives in the stuff that keep you on the can for yours, so you don't have time to snack?)
- They promise your money back if you don't lose 6 pounds per week. - (That remains to be seen. What are they going to do, ask for a Polaroid picture of your bathroom scale every day for 90 days? )
- They will take your money three ways, credit card, personal check or money order. - (Why would Mastercard or Visa give these folks a billing number?)
- "Only read this if you are skeptical and no longer believe in anything." - ( Yeah right, like do these folks think we are blind, deaf, dumb and without common sense. What a bloody insult to our intelligence.)
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"Do Nothing" Policies |
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OUR GOVERNMENTS' "DO NOTHING" POLICIES ENCOURAGE REPEAT FLIM-FLAMS
When is the government of Canada going to take action against the
newspapers and the companies who market this junk on unsuspecting
consumers.
We demand a complete investigation why the government has failed to take
action against any of these companies. The diet and weight loss scam industry
is worth billions in North America, and much of it comes from Canada. In other
words our country is a safe-haven for hundreds of scam artists who use the
internet and advertise freely in newspapers without fear of investigation by
our governement. Someone right now stands to make millions operating from the
safety of Toronto, right under the noses of Health Canada and the Ontario
government consumer protection branch.
We appeal to the ASC, the government, both Provincial and Federal to take control
of the fraud artists that are preying on the public. Right now, Canada is the
laughing stock of the world when it comes to the control of health quackery.
We will continue to do everything possible to educate the Canadian public about scam
artists and rogue health care providers on our web sites. But, it seems clear from
where I sit, that our governments just doesn't care about false advertising, health
scams and the dangerous products that come into our country. They also don't care
about mailorder scams that originate here, but are often part of an underground
cash-filled pipeline to some island in the Lesser Antilles.
The world of health fraud on the internet includes dozens of other stories, some
of them are very serious and involve doctors who are try to ship quack cancer drugs
out of Canada into the U.S. That's another story, one that we will cover later on.
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Office of Natural Health Products |
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What did the government do about diet and health fraud? Late last year, they
decided to form a new office, a spin-off of Health Canada. They appointed a
dozen or so people to a transition team, the overwhelming majority supposedly
represented the cream of the crop who work in companies that supply Canada with
vitamins, herbs, and other alternative health products. These are the very people
who can't prove that their products work, who can't prove that there products are
safe, and yet the government appoints them to a transition team to set up standards
in the natural and herbal product industry.
While the company that sells this particular product featured in this article is unknown, it is a prime
example of what the government has failed to do. Having an Office of Natural
Health Products is like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop.
Why hasn't Health Canada or the police visited the vendors, and their associates to see what is really going on. Where is the money going from their profits? Is it being laundered overseas?
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We Demand that Action be Taken Now! |
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Our web sites will cover the story of government failure to control the
false claims made in major publications, on the internet, on the radio
and televison info-mercials until something is done.
Terry Polevoy, MD
DietFraud.com
65 University Ave. East, Unit 10A
Waterloo, ON N2J 2V9
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