Category: Health remedy

Stupidest Spam of the Week Mad Scientist

Many scammers offer magical remedies for dementia, Alzheimer’s and similar long term afflictions.

This latest scammer is greedy as she offers cures for dementia, Alzheimer’s, tinnitus, hearing loss and all other brain problems in one.

She claims that a mad scientist is being sued by Big Pharma for curing Alzheimer’s.

If someone genuinely had such a cure why would you call them mad? Plus, court cases create publicity which presumably she thinks the pharmaceuticals companies don’t want.

She says that over 7,000 people have had their brain diseases eradicated and there’s a video to click to see the proof.

As usual (with these scam stories), lawyers are trying to get this information blocked so you have to view it soon.

It is sad that people could possibly believe such rubbish, but criminals will continue to peddle this drivel until they are caught.

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Stupidest Spam of the Week Vegetable Diabetes

There are so many scam messages about diabetes and some magic new cure that it must be difficult for scammers to think up more angles on the same basic story.

Diabetes types I and II are a scourge of the Western world and getting worse, so it’s an obvious choice for scammers to offer fake cures.

This latest scam has the subject line: “Green veggies are supposed to be good for you, right?”

And it goes on about a vegetable you think would help in the battle against diabetes but is actually the cause of it.

There is a list of vegetables and you are supposed to click on the one you think is the culprit.

All of the links are the same however, so it doesn’t matter which you click on – you end up at the same scam page.

Diabetes is where the body has difficulty processing sugar in the blood and producing insulin to control the level of sugar in the blood.

Now, all green vegetables contain only small amounts of fruit sugar so cannot possibly be an issue with diabetes.

The sweetest green vegetable is peas which contains around 6g of sugar per 100g.

On food packaging labels, the foods with more than 22 g of sugar per 100g are considered as high in sugar and 6g per 100 is considered very low.

Stupid scammer.

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Stupidest Spam of the Week Fat Vaccine

This scammer must have decided she’d cash in on the success of the Coronavirus vaccines by inventing a story about a vaccine against fat.

It is a ludicrous idea of course.

She claims ’One of our top scientists has just made a shocking discovery’.

‘He has secretly researched and helped hundreds of people with his vaccine against fat’.

She claims that this new method gives freedom from restrictive diets and the need for exercise and is also free from medication of any kind.

For some unexplained reason it also makes you look 10 years younger.   

The method takes just 5 seconds per morning and has been hailed as stunning by Harvard and Stanford.

However, as well as being applauded by such experts, it’s also a secret available now to you, if you click the link to learn more.

So,

  1. it’s secret but lots of people know about it and use it.
  2. It is a vaccine but is not a medical treatment of any form
  3. It makes you look 10 years younger
  4. Top scientists say its outstanding but scientists are also frightened and weight loss companies are in uproar

The whole fantasy is pathetic from start to finish.

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Stupidest Spam of the Week Lost Remedies

This one is about herbal remedies.

Sounds a boring topic for scammers and spammers but it does attract enough attention for them to use in scams and spam.

The title is ‘All The Medicinal Plants of North America’.

There’s a picture of a map of the U.S. showing the states and a photo of a woman holding up her book.

So, what makes me think it’s a scam, rather than just someone trying to sell a reference book?

  1. The email is from “improveurhealth.work” – the associated website does exist and is marked as malicious by multiple website scanners. That’s dangerous. No genuine author would have a malware website.
  2. The message says “We’ve just printed 100 copies – this isn’t available to the public, but there’s one with your name on”. The email was sent out to a large number of email addresses on a spam list and the sender does not know the owner’s names so this is a lie.
  3. The book is also called ‘The Lost Book of Herbal remedies’. That makes no sense as it’s a newly written book claimed to be based on years of research – not a lost book that has been found.
  4. Just on Amazon there are hundreds of book of herbal remedies and medicinal plants in America so the message claiming the book is unique – is very wrong.

All together – a scam.

Buy books from bookshops or online at reputable stores – never buy from unsolicited emails.

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Stupidest Spam of the Week Okinawan Tonic

Another email with a magical weight loss method that takes no effort.

This one claims to have been leaked by a doctor and was kept secret by the people of Okinawa who are very long lived.  Supposedly they have a pink tonic that melts belly fat like butter in a frying pan.

It is claimed to be so powerful that it activates a very rare hormone that eats fat.

Now, it is true that the people of Okinawa are very long lived and have extremely low levels of obesity.

But the reasons behind this are well known – certainly no magical drinks.

A large part of the effect is genetic as Okinawans who move away from the island are still long lived.

The rest is environmental factors – their diet is fruit and vegetables – they eat more sweet potato than rice unlike most of the rest of Japan. Most work in agriculture or fishing – good healthy outdoor activities.

The traditional Okinawan diet is dense in the essential vitamins and minerals – including anti-oxidants – but also low in calories.

No magic drinks – just a healthy diet, lots of exercise and good genes.

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Stupidest Spam of the Week Breakfast Trick

The message claims to be from “Dead Metabolism”. That’s not a subtle start.

It begins with “Before you eat breakfast do this ONE shockingly simple “morning trigger” to activate and turbocharge your dead metabolism…..  It takes just 10 seconds of your time.”

So, it’s another common scam with some magical means of almost instant weight loss.

“Penelope does it every morning and has dropped 49lbs..”

“Nicholas lost 45lbs with this bizarre trigger and no dieting or exercise..”

“Verity lost 33lbs in time for her wedding day..”

“This metabolism turbo-boosting was previously known ONLY to the inhabitants of a small island in the Indian Ocean, but now it’s possible for YOU to see too”.

That’s the usual fantasy stuff intended to convince the reader that it works.

The second half of the email has a page of text copied from a history of British Columbia.

British Columbia’s political history is typified by scandal and a cast of colourful characters, beginning with various colonial-era land scandals and abuses of power by early officials (such as those that led to McGowan’s War in 1858–59). Notable scandals in Social years included the Robert Bonner Affair and the Fantasy Gardens scandal which forced Premier Bill Vander Zalm to resign and ended the Social era. NDP scandals included Bingogate, which brought down NDP Premier Mike Harcourt, and the alleged scandal named gate which drove NDP Premier Glen Clark to resign. A variety of scandals

Scammers add this kind of text to try to get past the email providers scanning system that delete the most obvious scam and spam messages

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