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Written by JD Bell Friday, 26 February 2010 17:01
We have seen a sudden drop in the number of "celebrity" pitches for miracle supplement cures. Most attribute that to the flood of lawsuits Oprah Winfrey dropped on forty different supplement packaging companies. But I guess you can't keep a good scam down.
Oprah sued forty companies for fraudulent use of her name, her visage, and fictional quotes attributed to her.
Well, forty different company names anyway. These "companies", which all roll up into a few holding companies located in Vietnam, Granada, or other faraway locations, had been using Oprah and her cohort Dr. Oz in ads touting the weight loss capabilities of an acai based supplement pill. The lawsuits, filed in July of last year, are still working their way through the legal system, but should have scared off many of these miracle cure supplement companies from using questionable celebrity endorsements.
But lo and behold, there is a new push to sell another acai supplement called Extreme Acai by none other than Britney Spears.
Actually this scam was first seen in early 2009, but has just recently been re-released and is appearing as a pop up window in sites such as CNN, FoxNews, and other supposedly reputable news and information sites. (You can click on the photo above to see a sample of the full web page itself. Caution: it is a large file and may take a minute to download into your browser and you may need to click again to enlarge the view).
To rehash the web page, the Featured news from the "News 3 Insider" is a story about a recent appearance by Britney Spears on the Jay Leno show where she goes on and on about her recent weight loss and the secret she found to drop the pounds. The secret is an acai berry supplement called Extreme Acai.
And guess what? If you click on any part of the "news" story, it takes you to a site where you can lose weight the Britney by ordering your own risk-free 30 day trial of the miracle weight loss cure Extreme Acai.
Now this is convincing stuff. Just read some of Britney's quotes from the show:
Britney told Leno that she had tried several ways to shed the pounds without success until discovering acai berry.
"Everyone said I was fat, after my performance at the MTV awards. I remember hearing the mean things people were saying on TV and crying my eyes out. I tried everything." Spears told Leno in the candid interview.
And this:
The young starlet reports that she had recently begun taking Acai Berry weight Loss pills. Britney told Leno that since starting on Acai, she had lost almost 26 pounds so far.
"You know, working out and eating right can only do so much. I'm just not a work out junkie and I hate diets. Usually my dancing is enough to keep me sexy, but I gained a bunch of weight from stress and having my two boys. I needed some extra help. Thank God for Acai, it helped me lose the weight when the normal stuff wasn't working."Well, let's set the record straight. It never happened.
The photo you see in the story of Britney and Leno is from a 2003 appearance on the Tonight Show. And weight loss certainly wasn't an issue Britney had to deal with back then.
Britney Spears has never appeared with Jay Leno where any topic of discussion revolved around weight loss. The quotes are all totally fabricated and designed to use Britney's recent weight loss as an advertisement, a false adverisement, for Extreme Acai, one of the many "get your first 30 days free" supplement scams that appear on the Internet and in reputable health and fitness magazines.
Don't be fooled! Do your homework.
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Sharon Caroletty
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... I got suckered into an eye rejuvenator cream that was a first month free deal that turned into an every month charge me $65 ripoff. Sending back the shipments didn't work. Took me months and a call from a lawyer friend to convince them to refund some of my money. |
