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One Flat Stomach Rule: Scam
Here's the story of how a young lady named Mel, Nicolle, Kathy, Jenny, and many others lost 29, 35, 23, and 25 lbs. Yes, diet blogs under at least four different names picture the young lady above and claim she has lost varying amounts of weight. The ads all lead you to fictitious personal blogs complete with phony response postings. They claim endorsement by Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Oz, the ad above implies it by saying it was seen on Oprah and Dr. Oz. Oprah and Dr. Oz may have featured segments on acai berry and colon cleansing but I have found no record of them endorsing the products these ads are shilling for, Pure Acai Berry extract and All Natural Body Flush. Now let's take a closer look at these ads. All of the photos are from a photo service , istockphoto. Both the before, during and after shots are there but all before they were photoshopped to create the illusion of weight loss. Here are the before and after pictures from the ad above. You'll notice the before shot is unaltered but the after shot has been photoshopped to simulate 29 lbs of weight loss.
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UPDATE!!! The first three of the websites below have been taken down since my expose'. I guess they're trying to hide the evidence. The fourth one, jennysblog, is still up as of this writing. So, I'm afraid you won't be able to check all of them. Try to check out jennysblog before it goes down too, and tell your friends about this scam, you may be able to help someone avoid being ripped off. If you want to have a little fun go to each of these blogs melsdietblog.com/, nichollesweightloss.com/, kathylostweight.com/ and jennysdietblog.com/, look at the pictures then go to istockphoto.com/ diet pics and see if you can find the pictures in the three pages of shots of this model. I should point out at this point that the model and istockphoto are not a part of this scam; in fact, I would not be surprised to learn that the photos were not even legally purchased given the ability of the artist doing the photoshopping. Of course, this set of ads is not the only diet fraud out there. You know the old saying, 'If it sounds too good to be true it probably is.' 'Caveat emptor' was true in Rome and 'let the buyer beware' is true today. There are no weight-loss magic bullets. |
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