Weight Loss Scams Exposed

Many companies are advertising weight loss miracles that will never happen. If you’re like me, you’ve tried several of these products yourself. Some might have helped a bit, but none of them helped me, or you, lose weight permanently.

Recently I came across a list of weight loss scam sites. Let’s see how easily you can tell the difference between a scam site and an honest one:

• Scam sites use fake comments praising the site, but your comments will not be approved
• Fake pictures stolen from other weight loss sites
• Site is copied from another and does offer no or little original content
• Before and after pictures are created by a photo editing program
• Free trials, after a month they will hit you with high monthly charges
• Archive of the site is older than the site itself
• Questions and comments are taken from other sources, like Yahoo Answers
• Site uses a personal name (e. g. “sariahsweightloss”) but is not registered to somebody of that name
• Fake reviews leading to sales pages
• After signing up to a program, it is hard to cancel
• Take pictures from one type of diet (e. g. weight loss with tea) to promote different diet (e. g. Acai berries)
• and so on…

My point: If you want to lose weight permanently, stick with common sense approaches for normal people.