ALERT: Online Dating Sites May Betray You

What’s wrong with seeking love on the Internet?   Online dating has been around for awhile now and, not coincidentally, so have the horror stories about scammers exploiting seekers of love and companionship.    Scammers have targeted love-seekers for as long as people have been seeking love……was the Bible’s serpent a scammer?  Perhaps.   The FBI warns about … Read more

SCAM ALERT: How Diabetes Freedom “Cure” Scams Consumers

What would you do if you meet a new person and the first thing they say is clearly a lie?  You’d likely runaway.  Well, pretty much the first thing that Diabetes Freedom tells you is a lie:  its creator George Reilly doesn’t exist.  Nor does the MD/professor who allegedly inspired it.  Our advice:  runaway! Just … Read more

Do Probiotic Supplements Actually Work?

The probiotic supplement business is a large and growing industry but, like its vitamin-pushing brethren, it may be pushing useless placebo pills. Sales of probiotic “products” are predicted to exceed $52 billion by 2020.   Since 2008, sales for this particular type of supplement has boomed. But are they any better than harmless sugar pills ?   … Read more

Deconstructing Detox Diet Scams

Detox:  you constantly see it mentioned but what does it mean?  Actually — nothing;  it’s a nebulous term used by snake oil-salesmen to sell products cloaked in pseudoscientific babble on late night television and throughout the Internet.   Untold numbers of believers swear by detoxes and cleanses — a group that includes such celebrities as Dr. … Read more

SCAM ALERT: Fat Diminisher/Decimator – Wes Virgin’s Latest Rip-Off Diet Plan

Meet Wesley Virgin.  He holds himself out as “Billion Dollar Virgin”.   He’s an Internet marketing copywriter.  His most recent creation — The Fat Decimator System — may remind you a lot of the Fat Diminisher diet which is also wrote.   He’s an Internet scammer. His most recent diet scam joins the pantheon of Internet diet … Read more