CAUCE Spamfighters Rally Against Corona Health Fraud Affiliate programs
The monsters who are using the same fake news websites to drive their affiliate-marketing program scams to sell Immunity Oil to people who are desperate to protect their families and loved ones. As a member of the CAUCE Board (the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) I immediately reached out to Neil Schwartzman, my personal spam fighting hero and the founder of CAUCE. Even though we both know these are the same snake oil charlatans who have been in the spam business for a decade, perhaps now that they are putting people’s lives in true danger someone will finally do something to shut these scammers and spammers down. (Note, I’m not speaking for CAUCE here, I’m just mentioning that I’m proud to fight spammers with them.)
The first claim we’ll face, of course, is that “we don’t claim that our product fights the Corona Virus.”
My first refutation would be the email subjects being used to spam their products. The first email I got yesterday was this one, with the subject “Protection From Corona Virus With Immunity Oil”
Delivery-date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 17:06:42 -0500
Received: from [49.12.47.247] (port=47288 helo=urrmwipzqlpakl.xyz)
From:Miracle Virus Oil
Subject:Protection From Corona Virus With Immunity Oil
https://malkommal.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/immcoronfgdf.htm
Please note the email subject:
“Fight back against the coronavirus outbreak! Pure Herval Total Defense Immunity Blend”
of the other customers buying this stuff non-stop!
Fake Fox News?
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| www.mynutritionalnews.com/fox_virusout/ or dailyxhealth.com/us-cv-1/ as examples (Note that you may need to be “referred” from the right URL for this content to load) |
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| https://www.outbreakliveupdates.com/foxnews_outbreak/ . affid=428139&subid=6606 |
Others had gone even further to “De-Fox” themselves:
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| https://www.healthy-tips.life/healthytips_cor/ |
Healthy-Tips.life changed the logo and byline to be “World Break News” without changing a single word of the article.
The Second Scam
The first scam is that you are buying a fake product that you think will help you with Corona Virus. The second scam is that they are going to bill you more and more frequently than you think, and based on the Better Business Bureau complaints against many other companies run by the same outfit at the same address, this will probably happen to you as well.
The product Terms and Services says that if you don’t cancel your order within the allotted time, you’ll start being billed $89.95 per month on the credit card you provided at the time of the order. The company named in the Terms and Services is:
Finest Herbalist
PO Box 534
Pleasant Grove, UT 84062
The “Contact Us” page gives this information:
Contact Us
You can contact Finest Herbalist Customer Service for any questions, comments, or testimonials.
Phone: 1 (844) 899-2977
Email: [email protected]
Hours of Operation: 8am to 8pm EST daily
A company named “Herbalist Oils” that coincidentally is also at PO Box 534 in Pleasant Grove, Utah, has an “F” grade from the Better Business Bureau with complaints such as these:
Herbalist Oils, also known as First Class Herbalist CBD, of 4Bush Holdings, LLC is a scam. They offer a free bottle of CBD oil and latter I found out my bank account to be charged over 200.00 plus 89.99 thereafter for a subscription that I was unaware of for “Deep sleep” roll on. I contact them via email many times and they did not answer. There is nowhere on their website page that states this is a monthly subscription or that one will be charged more than the shipping fee for a free bottle of CBD oil. They ended up sending me 6 bottles of CBD oil. The oil is substandard and does not live up to its claims, however, I thought like some medications one might need to wait a few weeks for it to work….it never did. I then ended up receiving a bottle of deep sleep again and thought that this was another mistake on their behalf. I wrote them an email regarding this but I heard nothing back. After a few more months of this bottle being sent to me and not being able to get a return email from them, I finally called customer service. On the first phone call, I was told the subscription was canceled and my bank was never charged Subscription? this is the first I heard of any subscription. I then reviewed my bank statements and found indeed I was charged monthly as well as being charged over 200.00 initially. I called their customer service again and after some discussion, I was able to get two months of the 89.00 charges refunded. They stated since it’s over the 30 day refund time no other refund will be allowed. The refunds never showed up in my bank account.
Curiously, there are even more businesses at PO Box 534 in Pleasant Grove, Utah. In fact, there are at least 45 Better Business Bureau complaints in the past 3 years for businesses at that address, including:
- Keto Ultra Diet
- Manifest Health Plan
- Primal Pro Wellness
- Sunshine Heath and Wellness
- Plant Pure Diet and Beauty
- Tru Slim Living
A summary of the 45 complaints against them is available from the Better Business Bureau website. But they all say basically the same thing. “I thought I was getting a free trial product for $4.95 shipping, but then they charged me $89.95 (or other numbers, up to $200) and I couldn’t get them to stop!”
https://buywowx.com/
https://www.getlifeprotectx.com/
https://www.getsafemask.com/
https://www.getlifeprotectx.com/
https://hyperstech.com/intl_5/order.php?prod=uvcleanizerzoom
https://hyperstech.com/intl_5/order.php?prod=smartsanitizerpro
https://apusserum.com/os-immune
https://shopsafemask.com/
https://hyperstech.com/intl_5/order.php?prod=oxybreathpro
https://offer.premiumslimdiet.com/khs-beach-mcc/
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from CyberCrime & Doing Time authored by Gary Warner, UAB. Read the original post at: http://garwarner.blogspot.com/2020/03/cauce-spamfighters-rally-against-corona.html
