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Meet Your Neighbor: Wealth Wednesday

Meet Your Neighbor Acadiana

by: Tracy Wirtz

Posted: Dec 16, 2020 / 01:37 PM CST / Updated: Dec 16, 2020 / 01:37 PM CST

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Don’t Let Scammers Tip The Scales of Slaying Your New Year’s ResolutionBATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana Attorney General's Office) – In a perfect world, someone hoping to have a more healthy 2021 by losing weight could do so by simply taking a pill, wearing a patch, or drinking a detox tea. Unfortunately, medical data points otherwise; but that is not stopping scammers trying to take advantage of new year wellness resolutions, warns Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry. Attorney General Landry today issued a consumer alert cautioning Louisiana residents of phony weight loss products.“Pursuing a healthy lifestyle is a great idea,” said Landry. “But I strongly encourage consumers to be cautious when purchasing anything that promises weight loss.”According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC): bogus diet products, centers, and programs are the top reported complaint amongst health care-related scams.Scammers tend to promise weight loss products that “melt,” “burn,” or “dissolve” unwanted fat. They use these tricks to promote unproven materials with little to no medical testing.

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