Tag: weight loss

May 9, 2020

Time-Wasters Update

I have been personally selected to participate in a new annual visitor survey and for my participation I have a chance to win a new Samsung smart phone. That may sound reasonable. However, if I had been personally selected then the sender would know my name but the email is addressed to “Congratulations”. The email contains various links – to the survey, to help, to contact details, to terms and conditions but they all point to exactly the same scammers page. Lazy scammer. Most likely, the web page is a phishing site after your personal information.

Another email says the author has found my website through diligent searching and offers to pay me to post his articles on my site. These are supposedly articles written by a top team of American writers. He wants to know how much I charge per post. People can only afford to pay random web sites to have their articles posted online if they are scam messages or illegal. No thanks.

Yet another ludicrous story of someone losing tons of weight just when they were at death’s door. This one stars Peter who was warned by doctors he would die if he didn’t lose weight, but he had tried every possible method and failed. Then he learned one ‘shocking’ trick and lost 84 pounds. Maybe he had his legs and arms removed – who knows? Losing weight is simple in principle – eat less and exercise more. The hard bit is the will power to actually do it and no magic trick is going to do that for anyone.

A slightly different take on weight loss as this scam message focuses on a fatty liver. “Professors predicted my fatty liver will kill me”. Couldn’t she find a doctor? – so took advice from a college professor. Maybe he was teaching maths or geography and wanted to be a part time doctor. Anyway, the message claims it can show you the secret of fixing your fatty liver and losing as much weight as you want and looking years younger. Yeah! Right!

A reminder from TV Licensing that I need to update my details. Click the button to start. But the message is from maha-china .com so is fake and it was sent to undisclosed recipients meaning it’s gone to probably millions of random people.

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February 21, 2019

Weight Loss Scams

In the UK, nearly 60% of women have tried to lose weight in the last year and the same is true of about 40% of men.

This is largely because 57% of women are overweight or obese and so are 66% of men.

Clearly there is a very big problem.

The easy availability and affordability of high calorie foods, busy lifestyles with little time for any exercise, comfortable cars and heavy advertising of delicious but unhealthy foods have led most of us to be far too fat.

We turn to diets and exercise and try to find that magic approach that leads to the pounds falling off but takes little will power or self-denial.

So in step the criminals. They know we want a magic answer so they offer one.

It may be a magic ingredient known only to the Incas or some new scientific find or an old wives story or a lost Tibetan plant or a secret kept by the government or an ancient invention kept hidden by the diet industry or a simple set of exercises or some new piece of technology or an APP or anything.

They don’t care what the product is – just as long as gullible people buy into it.

And sadly they do – in that search for better health and a better body.

The only methods that work for losing weight are to increase your exercise and cut down on consumption of calories. Joining a club, following your doctor’s advice, following one of the few tested and proven diets and generally eating healthily will help.

But, there is no magic answer – it took time to put on the weight and will always take time and effort to shift it off.

Be sensible and don’t listen to gurus, advertisement, spam emails etc. They only relieve you of the money in your wallet not the pounds on your waistline.

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February 17, 2019

Stupidest Scam of the Week – Poison Food

The message title is “Lose 10 lbs in 7 days” and is from fatloss @arienthea.us.

The subject is “Stop eating these healthy foods if you want to lose 10 lbs in 7 days”

It’s a typical scam aimed at people desperate to lose weight who are looking for a magic way to lose that weight with little or no effort.

Sadly there is no such approach but the scammers keep inventing yet more stupid weight loss scams to catch people out.

This particular version of the scam involves conspiracy, a warning that this message will be removed shortly and claims the involvement of the prestigious Mayo clinic.

“This private bombshell expose shows how ‘health foods’ from Costco, Whole Foods, Safeway and others actually make you fatter, sicker and devoid of all energy. Turns out that 74% of these ‘healthy foods’ are laced with a dangerous poison”.

The use of language shows the level of stupidity involved.

e.g. ‘dangerous poison’ – but all poisons are dangerous.

“74% of these healthy foods” – a meaninglessly exact figure.

“devoid of all energy” – anyone devoid of all energy would be dead.

The closing line of the scam message is “avoid this poison to lose 10 lbs per week”.

No – you should avoid scams like this one to avoid losing money.

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October 6, 2018

Time-Wasters

Apparently, new research shows that certain common foods have devastating effects on men, including:- diabetes, depression, low libido and more. According to the email, this research is “heartbreaking” and “there’s no avoiding it”. It’s just a scammer trying to get people to click on a link they probably get paid to drive traffic to. Fortunately, there is an easy way to avoid such a scammer – delete such stupid messages.

An email titled “You can get rid of 30 lbs in 2 weeks” from Julie Rogers. So, it’s the usual scammer rubbish about magical ways to lose lots of with no effort. This one is full of links to click and they are each 4 lines long – approx.. 400 characters each which is a ridiculous number. Maybe the scammer thinks longer links look more meaningful – No they don’t.

American survivalists are a strange breed and sometimes emails appear about odd foods or plants or pieces of equipment that all ‘preppers’ must have. One recent one is about a tree that you can supposedly eat every bit of. Trees do provide fruit and seeds and some parts of some trees are nutritious such as heart of palm trees which is a delicacy in many tropical countries. But I wouldn’t want to eat an entire tree – YUK and probably a very unhealthy course of action.

Some scammers are such morons it’s hard to believe they can use a computer at all. An email arrived titled ‘Job Application’ and it says “#GREETINGS# My name is Accounting and I’m interested in a job” and it’s signed off as “Accounting” as if that is a name. I don’t think we’ll reply to that one.

“Knock out Arthritis for Good. A 100% Natural Program. You can learn the real cause of arthritis and get rid of it within 21 days”. Well, stupidity is natural unfortunately but arthritis is a group of problems with multiple causes and if for example your knee cartilage is worn away leading to arthritic pain then no ‘solution’ is going to fix that within 21 days.

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May 8, 2017

Grandma and Grandpa Rapid Weight Loss

Scammers like to pick unusual groups or places from which suddenly emerges a magical secret that can give rapid weight loss or increased brain capacity or a diabetes cure or banish cellulite or even a cure for Cancer.

This latest one is about how Grandpa Dan and Grandma Sylvia were flying home when Dan had a heart attack and the plane had to land in Germany where they were taught a unique 2 minute ritual that magically melts away belly fat.

So much so that Dan and Sylvia between them have lost 68 pounds of unwanted weight.

You just have to click the link to see the ‘true’ video of their experience and learn the 2 minute secret.

Recently we’ve seen similar scam emails proclaiming unknown magical remedies from African tribes, the Amish people, super triathletes, US Lifeguards, ancient civilisations and more. It is all ridiculous.

They are creative sometimes but the story is always the same

Magical remedy found
Magical remedy brought back and made available
Video evidence
Click on the link to find the truth

But step 4 involves parting with a lot of cash and getting nothing of any value in return.

Pathetic.

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