Bio-Mince

Valassis of Canada must have decided that they needed the money, so they accepted a scandalously bad advertisement for a pill named Bio-Mince.

Something is Missing Alongside the Truth

• no toll-free number
• no regular phone number
• no ingredients
• no doctor's name
• no published studies
• no company named
• no FDA disclaimer
• no Health Canada disclaimer

If anyone purchases this product and would like to be part of one of our DietFraud.com class action lawsuits, just let us know. The Advertising Standards Council will not move on this. Health Canada will sit on it for a few years, and all we will be told is that consumers have to be very wary about claims for diet products. Well lah-dee-dah, we don't even know what the hell this crap is, do we? The claims are too bizarre to even want to repeat here.

Authorities in the U.S. have known about this scam for years. They have operated in Champlain, N.Y. for years and it would seem that they are part of an international gang of diet fraud artists that continue to ply their trade without any government intervention.

ConsumerAffairs.com - 1997
Failure to comply with request to return money...

Home page in U.S.
VCI press Releases from FRB
SEC Info
Financials from Yahoo

"In 1995, we extended our North American coverage with the acquisition of Valassis of Canada, which offers a broad array of promotional products and services, including:

• Shop & Save FSI - a cooperative coupon booklet, distributed via Saturday newspapers to 5 million Canadian households.
• Shop & Save Plus - a four-color insert, targeted by newspaper, delivered within the Shop & Save FSI.
• ADHOME - a direct-to-household marketing program using a highly effective consumer behavioral database.

Valassis makes money whether the products are fraudulent or not

Valassis was at the centre of another classic Canadian base scam, and one that we are experts in at Dietfraud.com.

More Diet Patch Scams
In 1997 Valassis helped to spread the word about Quebec based Patrice Runner who marketed the fraudulent Svelt Patches, and it was done in their direct advertising inserts known as FSI.

Dr. Metz's Slimming Insoles

DietFraud slides into insoles

Of course we don't need to guess very hard. It's another Mail Boxes Etc. location. You might want to call them to complain, and make sure you have a paper and pencil ready to record their every word when they tell you that they can't tell you who really operates the Box #521. Tell them that you are going to call the police because you have been ripped off, and see what they say.

Remember the government of Canada is protecting these and other scam artists from prosecution. Unless these people threaten the government itself, they won't take action, and they won't even investigate them. The Federal government allows Mail Boxes Etc., and others like them to profit at our expense.

Health Canada is so overloaded with complaints about scam artists, they will likely launch an investigation on about 1 out of 10 companies.

The Advertising Standards Council ignores any product that has anything to do with weight loss or vitamins. We can't get them to take action.

Here is a listing from the Mail Boxes Etc. company web site:

   MBE CAN120
   3539 BOUL. ST-CHARLES
   KIRKLAND, QC H9H 5B9
   CANADA
   E-mail: mbec120@videotron.ca
   Phone: 514-694-6245 Fax: 514-694-4359

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Fortnostress.com
Offshore company promising to help you if you need someone to ........