Panic, shock, horror

[charlie]

OMG, quick Bill, you are needed again. This site came up on the first yahoo search page about HFI, I was looking up new explanations to give to the school and came across this site.
fructoseintolerance-options.com/

When click on the Tofratax weblink this comes up!!!


Good news for Hereditary Fructose Intolerance sufferers
Fortunately for Hereditary Fructose Intolerance sufferers studies of the main and established traditional texts consistently highlight a number of plants and herbs for their ability to heal Hereditary Fructose Intolerance. Researchers at Botanical Sources having mined these texts finalized a list of the most effective plants and herbs for Hereditary Fructose Intolerance. A list of these plants and herbs with their specific properties can be found here (Please click). The most effective parts of the plants (e.g. stem, seed, leaves, roots etc) and the manner of extracting their inner content were established. As a result, we are now able to form a calculated mixture of these pure natural extracts in the form of an oral pill highly efficacious for Hereditary Fructose Intolerance. Where modern science has helped is firstly in establishing proper therapeutic dosage and secondly in testing the product for safety and side effects.

Following FDA and DSHEA guidelines at all stages of development we are now able to present what we believe is the most proven, effective, safe and easy to use product for healing Hereditary Fructose Intolerance and titled it Tofratax.

[charlie]

The other two medicines claim 100% effectiveness in treating HFI too, not one site mentions fructose free diet as a treatment. The remedies look like a collection of herbs or homeopathic components.

[ukbill]

its worse than that its a snake oil get rich quick scam!

Look at this link.. fructotab.com/order.html

I have sent a message to the main site warning them of impending legal action and even a manslaughter case if anyone dies while taking their "treatment"

I have a Barrister friend I will put this to her and see what she can do to send them a letter to scare the willies out of them.

This has to be illegal!

Will try to get some action from police as well.

Certain its a scam because spelling on the site is worse than mine

[ukbill]

I cannot do everything can everyone PLEASE bombard Yahoo with urgent concerns over this site and lets try to at least get it de listed asap.


PS well spotted Charlie!

[ukbill]

OK this is part of a multi national scam organisation called Oslo-health and they have been selling "Proven" cures for a lot of conditions which are dangerous if not treated carefully HFI is just a new scam for them.

They have been going since 2007 apparently
look at this link

onesickmother.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/oslo-health-solutions-preying-on-the-sick-part-i.html

There are 3 parts to this not read all of part one yet.

[ukbill]

these are the culprits


Administrative Contact:
Health Solutions, Oslo [e-mail]
Suite 239
Youngstorget
Oslo NO-0028
Norway
00471452314

Technical Contact:
Health Solutions, Oslo [e-mail]
Suite 239
Youngstorget
Oslo NO-0028
Norway
00471452314

They own the web site and domain name.

I suggest an email campaign to start with.

And I will see if I can contact the Norwegian Embassy tomorrow and see what they have to say about this company and what they are planning to do about it.


Anyone know any Journalists ? it helps if I have a couple of name I can throw at the Embassy.

They will not like adverse publicity.

[ukbill]

OK Fraud office don't want to know
Trading standards passed the book
ASA (Advertising Standards Agency) seem to like the problem and an official complaint has been made to them.

More work to do! short on time though.. dam work keeps getting in the way.

OK the address is a "Virtual Office" just spoken to company who "rent" virtual offices and claim to be offering this address as one of their "virtual" offices for £120 a month!

They are looking into the company and will report back to me in 24 hours.

[charlie]

Thats shocking how many scams they have pulled. Didn't realise it was a scam but was shocked at their claims and cost of medicines. Well look into what I can do too, let us know, wouldn't have a clue where to start.

Maybe someone needs to buy some stuff then trading standards would get a proper complaint from that person to follow up?

[ukbill]

Now in the hands of the Advertising Standards Authority in the UK.

In the UK any advert has to be Legal Truthful and Decent.

Advertising something, like a fake cure, is illegal and the ASA can get very hot about it

The fines can be in the millions of £

They at least are taking the case seriously and are very fast in replying to my e-mails and messages.

Not sure if they can close them down but I suspect they are going to have a good go

IF they get hold of a UK based person responsible for this they can really make their life "interesting" to say the least.



The ASA certainly have the connections to "wake up " the Police Fraud squad if they suspect something is a blatant fraud.