It is quite likely that if you have been visiting sites that showed the Google Profit Adverts, you are now starting to get adverts like the one on the left claiming that you can get amazing weight loss results. I suspect that the vast majority of people will skip these adverts entirely, but to satisfy my curiosity I decided to click the ad to see what the angle was.
When I did click on the advert I came to a “blog post” proclaiming the wonders of “Acai Berry Elite” Tablets and “Youth Colon Cleanse”. What Immediately got me suspicious was that the blog posts “author” (Helen Miller’s Weight Loss Diary) claimed to be from the same town I am, ever suspicious of a generated script using IP address data.
To check if this was the case I then activated HotSpot Shield which gave me a different IP address based in the US rather than the UK and clicked the ad again. To my immense “surprise”, Helen Millers location then changed to one in the US as can be seen in the images obtained from the blog below (note I have blacked out my location but left the county). For a larger picture click on the image.
So this confirms (as if I needed it) that this is a fake ad blog trying to make you buy those products, since if it were a genuine blog post about something there would be no need to tailor the location to match yours. For reference this is done as they are trying to generate empathy between you and the author.
In terms of this ad, they keep going on about how “expensive” the juice form of Acai berry is so that you should go for the offer where you can get it for free:-
Even though the juice is expensive, you don’t have to worry about that. I’m going to tell you how to get the same health benefits for free.
Please note that the juice form is very expensive, and 5 pills of Pure Acai Elite extract equals all the Acai berry in the juice form. This is why I highly recommend you get Pure Acai Elite extracts in pill form with the colon cleansing formula for added benefits. You’ll be amazed how great this diet really is!
So just how expensive is Acai juice, I did a quick search on google and found that if you shop around you can get a 330ml bottle of 20% Acai juice for around £1.50, though for higher concentration juice it can become more expensive costing anything from £5 upwards (often getting very expensive), with tablets costing in the same range.
So lets say you are interested and click on the information page for Acai Elite and Youth Colon Cleanse, you may be wondering whats the angle?. Well very much like the Google Profit Adverts, they are trying to entice you with something cheap. In this case a 30 day sample offer which requires you to pay a small amount for delivery but it also makes you take out a subscription which will cost you:
1. Beginning on the day that You place an order for a product (”Product”) from the Website, Your fifteen (15) day Free Trial period begins (”Free Trial Period”). The Free Trial Period is calculated in calendar days, not business days. At the end of your 15 day trial period you will be charged GBP 69 (a GBP 20.95 savings off the regular retail price of GBP 99.95).
It is also the same for the colon cleanse website, a small amount for shipping but hidden in the terms and conditions is the full amount it will charge you per month if you are not careful. I thoroughly checked the front page and no where on it does it state that you are paying for anything other than shipping for a trial.
So overall “if” I wanted Acai berries, I would go for the £1.50 juice and ignore the tablets as they are too expensive!
My advice as always when buying something off an unknown website, or if a site makes an offer that requires you to pay for handling CHECK THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FIRST, as it may end up costing you a lot more than you expect.
