Ukmedix News says please please please just ignore them!

The UK’s Office of Fair Trading reckons that UK citizens are throwing away around £20 million annually on fake and bogus slimming supplements and medications that are not even slightly effective. They estimate that around 200,000 people who wished to lose weight quickly and painlessly went online and were lured into some scam and bought “a miracle pill” of some sort.

The Office of Fair Trading is getting involved not because of the dangers of these fake supplements but quite simply because there job is to protect consumers from any product that doesn’t do what it says it can do. According to their statistics the average victim spends about £90 annually and the biggest group of people who get caught are women who are obsessed with looking slim. The OFT reckons that almost 80% of those who buy these fake weight loss products are women. 

The pattern is simple but effective. You get an email with the words ‘easy’, ‘new’, ‘miracle,’ or ‘groundbreaking’ all over it. They show you a black and white grainy photo of a fat person next to a colour sunny day photo of supposedly the same person looking thinner, with the words ‘before’ and ‘after’ above them. A few testimonials from Jack Brown and Jane White are thrown in with lots of exclamations marks and the scam is complete.

The OFT has put out a warning about these emails and is urging people to just delete them as they are fraudulent. The also said that the medications or products just don’t work and some can even be dangerous. Weight loss spam emails are growing in number and are the second most common internet fraud after the sale of impotence drugs like Viagra, Cialis or Levitra.

Ukmedix News says please please please just ignore them! They don’t work, they are dangerous and you will be throwing your money away. Nothing beats careful diet and exercise for the long term.