These ad links show up on many reputable websites… aside from being an obvious scam, my question is whether anything can be done given that it is easily provable that these are false testimonials.
Check out 2 examples: www.michellesweightloss.com and www.michelesweightloss.com … (not the issue that one has 2 L’s and one has one) – I have a list of about 2 dozen of these fakes. anyone can find them by google-ing for “acai” and diet or such.
I saw that an inordinate number of these sites were from women from MY TOWN or nearby! I didn’t know we had so many fat women here! I thought maybe they were suckered into work-from-home small business scams.
Then I got the idea that maybe they weren’t really here, so I asked a couple of friend around the country to look at the web sites. Guess what? The women were no longer from my town but from THEIR towns! So the web page simply gets the referrer’s IP address and locates the town or nearby town and stuffs it into the page. I didn’t ask if the names of the women are the same but obviously the page is as fake as the product.
My question is: can anything be done to file a complaint against these liars and put them out of business? Of course it would probably mean the demise of radio and TV since they buy much of the empty airtime.
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Report this scam to your state’s Attorney General. They will follow up on it and if it’s a scam, they will shut it down in your state.
If your research can be well-documented that is the bit about lying to people about where the examples in the ad live, you can lodge a complaint against them with the service providers who carry the ads.