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The Applicator or Lose Inches Now Scam    Unbelievable Claims from Mexico Better Than Liposuction? Lose Inches Now? This is just about the most outrageous scams that I have ever seen, and guess what, IT'S NOT FROM CANADA. It's from a guy named Scott Palat from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Search SamSpade.com for lose-inches-now.com WARNINGS - BELIEVE IT OR NOT THIS JUNK CLAIMS TO BE 1. FROM MEXICO 2. HOMEOPATHIC 3. MADE BY A STRANGE PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY We were told that it's called the Aspid Pharmaceutical company but all we could find is this one: Laboratorio Aspid, S.A. Dra. Mine Díaz Calle Bélgica No. 518 Po México, D.F. 539.80.33 Producto: Cremas, Geles, y Cosméticos If this is the manufacturer, it is listed as a cosmetic company. I could not locate their web site. But, I did locate a web site for a company named ATREV, that has a web site in Spanish only. They seem to make some of the products listed by the two web sites above. ATREV.COM Translated to English by Google: - Check out the various products. They appear to be the very ones that Scott Palat seems to be marketing. Just click on nuestros productos (our products) and you can see them all. Clues that their claims are not exactly believable. They are using PayPal to collect your money. They also take checks and money orders. Scott Palat seems to be also mixed up with the SeaSilver scam: Stephen Barrett's new URL on the SeaSilver: I suggest that anyone who gets spammed by any of these people to report this to the FTC, the BBB, etc. File complaints here: www.consumer.gov/sentinel If any of you have ordered this junk, please let us know if you have received the stuff, what you ordered, and if you got your money back if your returned it. Remember, cross-border consumer health scams effect all of us, here in Canada, the U.S. and in Mexico. Don't think that you can't fight back. Back to DietFraud.com Support our work with your donation Terry Polevoy DietFraud.com

"Do Nothing" Policies    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.

Office of Natural Health Products    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?

We Demand that Action be Taken Now!    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, M.D. Dietfraud.com 938 King St. West Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 1G4 519-725-4953 fax. SEND US YOUR ADVERTISEMENTS: Please send any questionable diet ads in your local paper or magazines from this company. Include the date, the name of the publication, and we will scan them in and forward them to the proper department at the Bureau of Competition of Industry Canada. Please send them even if the ads were in non-Canadian publications. American and other foreign magazines are everywhere. If we don't know that the scams are out there, we won't be able to complain.