“Dry Up Cancer With Bread” and other elderly scams can be found on the link below from a blogger who kept track of all the direct mail his elderly parent received over a few months. I’ve run into a nearly identical list of companies and parent companies in 2012 that he did in 2010 as we both dealt with the same issue.
Predatory marketing is putting it nicely.
One such scam touts how the silver of just one silver dollar could make $4,000 worth of colloidial silver that people use for medicinal purposes. Assuming you could actually make it, would the FDA allow you to sell uninspected medicine? Who the hell would be nuts enough to buy it from Joe Blow’s garage?
The BBB is not the best recourse, but now there is the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau you can turn to.
File a complaint with the agency online, drop a note on their Facebook page, and leave a notice on the several AARP pages to forewarn seniors and seniors’ caregivers. Or circulate the information anywhere seniors or caretakers gather.
I think this agency is a better choice than the Federal Trade Commission in these cases.
Many of these offers are from parent companies soliciting to the same customer list under multiple subordinate company names. Here are some known scams to forewarn about, and resources to counter these predatory practices:
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But I did find a new Federal Government agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, that is willing to put some teeth into the fight against corporate abuse of the elderly (and others). The agency just took Captial One for $210 Million in penalties for their misleading marketing practices:
They do have a Facebook page, too, under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Fraud victims can call INFOLINK at the National Center for Victims of Crime Resource Center 800-394-2255.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was responsive to another of my inquiries. It’s the Federal Trade Commission that really has the teeth to bite the asses of such predators.