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SLIMMAX diet scam from Montreal |
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 Valassis Shop & Save Coupon May 11, 2002 | |
Yes folks Mailboxes Etc. Canada is at it again. They rented a private mailbox to yet another Montreal based diet scam operation. Click here to see what these folks did a few months later using the same box number.
SLIMMAX
2348 Lucerne Suite 622
Montreal QC H2R 2J8
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Watch your weekend newspaper coupon inserts. We received many complaints on this one, and we thank you for your help. The government of the U.S. and Canada have failed to prevent yet another diet scam. 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.
"I LOST SO MUCH WEIGHT SO FAST THAT MY DOCTOR SAID "STOP !" they claim in bold headlines. I guess if you believe this, you are clearly in need of professional help.
- No phone number
- No web site
- No ingredients were listed
- Wild claims like: "THE FACTS: I went from 180 to 110 pounds in 6 weeks all the while eating my favorite high calorie foods. One year later, I still haven't regained one unwanted pound!"
- They want only your personal check or money order - in other words, no credit cards to follow a paper trail here.
- That in a nutshell is a hallmark of a diet scam
Back to Dietfraud.com
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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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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
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