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TrimSpa scammers and Anna Nicole Smith |
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Put a professional flim-flamming hypnotist and a former Playboy Bunny together and you've got a formula for success in the weight loss business.
TrimSpa is the target of New Jersey Attorney General who charged Alex Szynalski, aka Alex Goen, with deceptive advertising. He lured customers to his Goen Lose Weight Hypnosis seminars and then pushed sales of his own supplements. It was a bait-and-switch tactic. Plus, he failed to disclose the potential dangers of his ephedra-containing supplements.
Consumers who signed up for the seminars were instead bombarded with pitches for the ephedra-based supplement TrimSpa and another called Lipo Spa touted as "liposuction in a bottle," Attorney General Peter C. Harvey said.
In addition, the state claims Goen often refused to make payments to those who sought refunds despite having offered a 110 percent money back guarantee.
TrimSpa's web page now hawks ephedra-free TrimSpa, but he had previously sold it with ephedra. You will notice that Anna Nicole Smith appears bloated in a very, very bad b/w picture.
In case you want to see her in the company's TV ads, she's all there in all her "boobessence".
Google search for Anna Nicole Smith and lawsuit
eXtra TV news Unfortunately for fans of this show, they failed to remove this from their web site. In fact, this page was placed on October 30, 2003. That's two weeks after the lawsuit was launched in New Jersey. I always thought that the show was junk entertainment, and now I am sure.
 Anna Nicole's TV show from Amazon.com
The DVD was released on November 4, 2003 by Lions Gate Home Entertainment. This is a triple DVD production and runs 336 minutes. It’s the complete first season on DVD featuring uncensored, uncut and unedited never-before-seen bonus footage! Take a wild ride with Howard K. Stern…Anna’s best friend and lawyer, Kim…her extremely personal purple-haired assistant, Sugar Pie…Anna’s very protective black Poodle and Bobby Trendy…Anna’s Luxurious interior designer! Experience America’s Guiltiest Pleasure. It’s not supposed to be funny, it just is!
Student's review of the series
Don't forget for those of you who are hearing impaired, this DVD is closed captioned. Lions Gate is a Canadian company based in Vancouver.
Their home web site has a listing of their other TV shows, and videos. It is listed on AMEX. Hoovers profile.
 Anna Nicole Exposed
Yes, it's a real movie, just in case you didn't know about her other career.
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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, M.D.
Dietfraud.com
938 King St. West
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
N2G 1G4
519-725-4953 fax.
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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.
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