The two women who for years have defrauded people by selling them fake weight loss supplements and fake cancer treatment products were fined $ 820,000 in compensation .

I had already talked about  Helen Buchan and Carol Wiseman in a previous article , the protagonists of one of the biggest diet scams of recent years. The two “nice” Scottish ladies in their fifties earned millions of euros by selling slimming drops that actually contained only water and vinegar.
Plus, they sold a special apple cider vinegar that they said could beat cancer. In spite of how much the two ladies have earned with these two products, about one million and six hundred thousand euros of traceable money according to the investigators, the women are expected to pay half of the money they declared within the next six months. In fact it is legitimately suspected that in so many years Buchan and Wisema

This tells us two things.
The first: that you don’t have to trust either dietary or even curative miracle cures.
This seems trivial , but taking into account how many people buy useless supplements every year, it is always worth remembering that to date no supplement has proved to be truly miraculous, neither against extra pounds nor against serious diseases.

The second: even when these people are caught, which unfortunately does not always happen, the fines are unfair with respect to their turnover and only in some cases are they arrested, or when a criminal offense is looming.

This is because the crimes committed via the internet are by nature multiple, and the control, prevention and penalty measures also differ from country to country, given the “liquidity” of the world wide web and the heterogeneity of the crimes.

Therefore, depending on the type of scam, different measures can be applied , and these measures vary depending on the country in which they are committed.
There are many web frauds, and unfortunately the phenomenon is growing.
Even in the world of diets, wellness and health.
One thing that was already discussed when scams on the web against people with cancer came out.

When it comes to a conviction, years often pass (in the case of the two ladies the facts date back to 2012), and often the protagonists of these mega scams against people get away with fines. Considering this, all the more reason we need to be careful not to fall into the trap of gurus and other web smokers.

But how?

1. First and foremost, be wary of those products that promise miracles , mind-blowing weight loss results and better health.
2. Looking for honest and traceable reviews , i.e. written by people who actually exist and not by fake profiles, on the product you want to buy.
3. Third, by looking for reviews and information on the companies that make them. Do they sell other products?
   Which? Do they only sell from their site or on other channels as well? Are these channels trusted online stores or have we never heard of them? Are these channels independent of the company or are they pages created by the same company? If the product can be purchased in pharmacies or parapharmacies, it is already safer than something that only exists on the net.
4. In the case of the two ladies’ slimming drops, the product was water and vinegar , but what happens if we buy something that can hurt us? So pay attention to the list of ingredients where it is present. If it is not present, it is already suspicious. If it is present, search the net for each ingredient, and inform the doctor about the product you want to buy.