There is a trend for fashionable beards and some men will buy products to help them grow such a beard and for grooming.

Beard Czar heavily  advertise their products for beard growth and grooming and they have a website at www.beardczar.com

Selling such products is perfectly legal of course.

It’s the special offer they advertise that is the problem.

The offer is that you can try their product for 1 month at a cost of $4.95. The small print with the offer says that you are automatically signed up for their auto-shipment program which sends you 1 month supply every 30 days and charge your credit card.

Unless you cancel that subscription within 14 days then you will be charged $89.99 and so on every 30 days.

There is a phone number to call to cancel but people trying that find it very difficult

See https://www.bbb.org/phoenix/business-reviews/hair-ornaments/beard-czar-in-phoenix-az-1000039261/reviews-and-complaints

for people’s experiences of dealing with this company.

Beard Czar have followed the typical scammers model and created lots of fake reviews online to make it difficult for people to find genuine reviews.

If you type Beard Czar on Google, it finds the Beard Czar website then a lot of reviews with titles such as Beard Czar Warning – Read This Before You Buy It”, “Do Not Buy “Beard Czar” – SIDE EFFECTS REVEALED!!”, Do Not Try “Beard Czar”- All Side Effects HERE!!! – Health Fly Up”

These are just sales pitches dressed up to look like reviews. This is an attempt to deceive people and this kind of action is only carried out by people who don’t want the public to know what’s going on.

Companies that operate this kind of model where they send you a product then do everything they can to make it difficult to stop their charges – are best avoided.

If you have any experiences with scammers, spammers or time-waster do let me know, by email.

We are all used to sales at almost any time of year nowadays even by high fashion companies.

Scammers sometimes go to a lot of trouble to replicate part of the website of a fashion store online.

A recent scam started with a  flood of emails about a Michael Kors sale.

Michael Kors is high fashion and comes with a hefty price tag so you can imagine the interest when the email says Huge Savings.

In fact later in the email it says “Take an additional 90% of your entire purchase of $100 or more”

They would not be in business for long giving away good quality product at 90% discount.

Of course, it’s all fake. Visitors to the fake site from the link in the email will find few items (with bargain prices) but it’s when you hand over your payment card details that the scammer has won and will use your card till it runs dry.

There are genuine sales of course and these are advertised by email sometimes.

But do pay attention to any links and which websites they would take you to.

In the Michael Kors email – it was all copied from genuine emails but the word “stockist” was spelled “srockist” which tells you it’s all fake and the unrealistic discount proves the point.

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Cars and some other vehicles have ODB2 ports – that is a slot to plug in diagnostic equipment so a garage mechanic can access the data stored in the car’s computer control systems and pick up any warnings etc.

Modern cars need to be tuned to provide optimum performance, fuel efficiency and so on and this is done by the manufacturer before sale. They know best as they are the ones who designed and built the car.

However, scammers have for some years been offering magical devices that you plug into the ODB2 ports and they somehow reprogramme the vehicle to be both faster and more fuel efficient which is obviously impossible.

The scammers claim that the device assesses your car then reprogramme it and the flashing lights on the device show it is working. They claim you can save 35% on your fuel costs within days.

Experts who have purchased and dismantled these devices say (and show on video clips) that the devices typically are just a set of flashing lights – they are incapable of reprogramming your car or making improvements in any way.

Don’t waste your money on this kind of rubbish.

If you have any experiences with these scams do let me know, by email.