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SLIM-WITHIN diet scam from Montreal    Valassis Shop & Save Coupon October 5, 2002 November 2, 2002 SLIM-WITHIN Valassis Shop & Save Coupon October 5, 2002 November 2, 2002 SLIM-WITHIN 2348 Lucerne Suite 622 Montreal QC H2R 2J8 Valassis Canada is a branch of Valassis International. Their Canadian offices are located in Mississauga. Their phone number is 905-677-0499 Yes folks Mailboxes Etc. Canada is at it again. The same private mailbox #622 that was used by SLIMMAX last May is now being used by another Montreal based diet scam operation. The intent by the renters is basically to deceive the public that their "company" is operating out of an office that is referred to as Suite 622. In the U.S., the government requires businesses that use private mail boxes, or mail receiving/forwarding locations to indicate one of the following. They must indicate either # or PMB in their address. The stupid government of Canada requires no such thing. Watch your weekend newspaper coupon inserts. We expect ot receive many complaints on this one, and we thank you for your help. The government of the U.S. and Canada have failed to prevent yet another diet scam. This one is real loser folks, and I don't mean it will help you lose weight. You will lose your money, and that's for sure. "TRUE STORY: ...For the first time in my life, I fell good in my own skin!..." they claim in bold headlines. No phone number No web site No ingredients were listed Wild claims like: They guarantee that you will lose 6-10 pounds a week until you reach your goal. They say that since they make a formal and written guarantee with awarded legal protection. What the hell does that mean? It makes absolutely no sense at all. They want only your personal check or money order - in other words, no credit cards to follow a paper trail here. That in a nutshell is a hallmark of a diet scam Great Google search for 2348 Lucerne - I wonder who Vish Patel is, and if he has a long-term contract with MBE at that location. He's usually in box 242, and it looks like he's really busy. I can't imagine why someone with a good pair of eyes hasn't filed a complaint with MBE about this. Back to Dietfraud.com

"Do Nothing" Policies    OUR GOVERNMENTS' "DO NOTHING" POLICIES ENCOURAGE REPEAT FLIM-FLAMS When is the government of Canada going to take action against the newspapers and the companies who market this junk on unsuspecting consumers. We demand a complete investigation why the government has failed to take action against any of these companies. The diet and weight loss scam industry is worth billions in North America, and much of it comes from Canada. In other words our country is a safe-haven for hundreds of scam artists who use the internet and advertise freely in newspapers without fear of investigation by our governement. Someone right now stands to make millions operating from the safety of Toronto, right under the noses of Health Canada and the Ontario government consumer protection branch. We appeal to the ASC, the government, both Provincial and Federal to take control of the fraud artists that are preying on the public. Right now, Canada is the laughing stock of the world when it comes to the control of health quackery. We will continue to do everything possible to educate the Canadian public about scam artists and rogue health care providers on our web sites. But, it seems clear from where I sit, that our governments just doesn't care about false advertising, health scams and the dangerous products that come into our country. They also don't care about mailorder scams that originate here, but are often part of an underground cash-filled pipeline to some island in the Lesser Antilles. The world of health fraud on the internet includes dozens of other stories, some of them are very serious and involve doctors who are try to ship quack cancer drugs out of Canada into the U.S. That's another story, one that we will cover later on.

Office of Natural Health Products    What did the government do about diet and health fraud? Late last year, they decided to form a new office, a spin-off of Health Canada. They appointed a dozen or so people to a transition team, the overwhelming majority supposedly represented the cream of the crop who work in companies that supply Canada with vitamins, herbs, and other alternative health products. These are the very people who can't prove that their products work, who can't prove that there products are safe, and yet the government appoints them to a transition team to set up standards in the natural and herbal product industry. While the company that sells this particular product featured in this article is unknown, it is a prime example of what the government has failed to do. Having an Office of Natural Health Products is like putting the fox in charge of the chicken coop. Why hasn't Health Canada or the police visited the vendors, and their associates to see what is really going on. Where is the money going from their profits? Is it being laundered overseas?

We Demand that Action be Taken Now!    Our web sites will cover the story of government failure to control the false claims made in major publications, on the internet, on the radio and televison info-mercials until something is done. Terry Polevoy, M.D. Dietfraud.com 938 King St. West Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 1G4 519-725-4953 fax. SEND US YOUR ADVERTISEMENTS: Please send any questionable diet ads in your local paper or magazines from this company. Include the date, the name of the publication, and we will scan them in and forward them to the proper department at the Bureau of Competition of Industry Canada. Please send them even if the ads were in non-Canadian publications. American and other foreign magazines are everywhere. If we don't know that the scams are out there, we won't be able to complain.