{"id":1905,"date":"2013-01-08T16:04:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-08T07:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/?p=1905"},"modified":"2013-01-09T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T01:42:16","slug":"the-5-wrinkle-trick-truvisage-puressance-trial-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/the-5-wrinkle-trick-truvisage-puressance-trial-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;$5 wrinkle trick&#8221; (TruVisage, PurEssance) trial trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a lot of websites I visit I see ads like &#8220;Mom discovers $5 wrinkle trick &#8212; see her trick&#8221;. These ads lead to sites such as ch8health.com which advertise &#8220;free trials&#8221; of cosmetic products called TruVisage and PurEssance using deceptive advertising:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The trial is not free but costs $5.35, supposedly for shipping and handling.<\/li>\n<li>Unless the trial is cancelled within 20 days, a further $74.95 is charged for the first bottle, which you may or may not have received by then.<\/li>\n<li>After 30 days you will be billed another $80.30 ($74.95 + $5.35 shipping and handling). The same amount will be charged every 30 days after until canceled.<\/li>\n<li>The website uses logos of newspapers and other media as if they had reviewed the product, which they haven&#8217;t. For example, when viewed from Japan it shows the logos of Japan Times, Yomiui Shimbun and Asahi Shimbun<\/li>\n<li>The date at which the free trial is supposed to expire is always one day away &#8211; it is dynamically calculated based on your local time.<\/li>\n<li>The date of all &#8220;user comments&#8221; are always one day old &#8211; they are also dynamically calculated based on your local time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The deception used in these ads is very similar to the tricks used in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joewein.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/work-from-home-mum-scams\/\">&#8220;Work at home mom&#8221; scam<\/a> and the target population may be similar too.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is another variant of these ads. The ad text is something like &#8220;Woman is 53 but looks like 27&#8221; or &#8220;Mom Cut 20 Years in a Week Using This 1 Weird Trick&#8221; and takes you to a site called &#8220;consumers-lifestyles.net&#8221; where they advertise products called &#8220;BellaGenix&#8221; and &#8220;PuraSilk&#8221;. Shipping and handling is $4.95 but the first package is $99.95 and the subscription will cost you $89.95 every 30 days until cancelled. Beware!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a lot of websites I visit I see ads like &#8220;Mom discovers $5 wrinkle trick &#8212; see her trick&#8221;. These ads lead to sites such as ch8health.com which advertise &#8220;free trials&#8221; of cosmetic products called TruVisage and PurEssance using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/2013\/01\/08\/the-5-wrinkle-trick-truvisage-puressance-trial-trap\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1905\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joewein.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}