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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Ads peddling ‘Thyroid Mana’ are a SCAM

By VERA Files | Mar 02, 2023 1:25 PM

Several Facebook (FB) pages are advertising a health supplement that can allegedly cure a myriad of thyroid-related illnesses. This is a scam. From Jan. 17 to Feb. 16, these pages uploaded videos marketing a product called “Thyroid Mana” that claims to treat diseases such as thyroid tumors, goiter and hyperthyroidism. The videos collectively received more […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: More BOGUS ads on Lung Cleaner Tritydo circulate

By VERA Files | Feb 16, 2023 5:35 PM

A product called Lung Cleaner Tritydo is being falsely advertised again on Facebook (FB) despite being debunked before over bogus claims that it could treat asthma, pneumonia, and bronchitis. This time posted by nine FB pages, all posts claimed the product could treat a variety of respiratory diseases in one to two weeks and that […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: ‘Sinusitis spray’ ads on FB are FAKE

By VERA Files | Jan 27, 2023 1:31 AM

Several posts are circulating on Facebook (FB) advertising an “all-natural” nasal spray that guarantees to cure sinusitis and rhinitis within seven to 14 days. These are scams. VERA Files Fact Check flagged four such posts from Jan. 12 to 16 alone. Some featured videos of unidentified people dressed as medical experts selling the product, while […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Neypro 1 Gold is NOT approved by FDA

By VERA Files | Jan 09, 2023 3:13 PM

A video on Facebook (FB) is peddling a milk supplement that claims to cure kidney-related diseases, insomnia and joint and back pain. The supplement is not on the Food and Drugs Administration’s (FDA) list of certified products as advertised. The video emerged last Dec. 19 and advertised a milk product called Neypro 1 Gold, receiving […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Another FAKE ad uses Doc Willie Ong’s name to promote weight loss cereal

By VERA Files | Jan 09, 2023 11:08 AM

An impostor Facebook (FB) page using the name of cardiologist Willie Ong posted a video promoting a cereal product that allegedly helps consumers lose weight. Ong is not endorsing MEIZOU chia seeds cereal and the product is not registered with the Food and Drug Administration, as the post claims. Published on Dec. 23, the one-minute- […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK YEARENDER: ‘Buy one, get scammed free’: Mga scam, nagkalat sa social media nitong 2022

By Enrico Berdos and Bryan Manalang | Dec 28, 2022 8:00 AM

Iba-iba ang mga modus ng bogus posts na nagkalat sa social media: mga biglaang anunsyo ng ayuda, mga gamot ng iba’t ibang sakit at mga pila ng tao na bibili ng bagsak-presyo na aircon.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: ALTERED photos of doctor used yet again to scam netizens

By VERA Files | Dec 15, 2022 3:21 PM

With manipulated photos, another post on Facebook (FB) is impersonating a Filipino doctor to sell granola mixed nuts that supposedly aid in weight loss. Pretending to be Dr. Josephine Rojo, a rhinoplasty and fasting specialist with a following of 932,000 on FB, an FB page using the doctor’s name thanked people for joining this year’s […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: IMPOSTOR FB page uses Sharon Cuneta to sell cereal product

By VERA Files | Dec 12, 2022 1:49 PM

A fake Facebook (FB) page illicitly used the name of Sharon Cuneta and altered a video featuring the megastar to peddle a chia seed cereal that purportedly aids in weight loss and developed by a so-called Japanese Nutrition Institute. The said institute is non-existent and the post is linked to an online retail account. Also, […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Cheska Garcia-Kramer impersonator uses FAKE photos for mouth spray ad

By VERA Files | Dec 02, 2022 1:42 PM

A Facebook (FB) page impersonating celebrity-vlogger Cheska Garcia-Kramer used altered photos of her family to advertise a product called Japan Pasteur Institute Mouth Spray. The mouth spray, also called Mouth Fresher Spray in its bogus link (nys-real.asia), is not a registered cosmetic product under the Food and Drug Administration. Nor has the Pasteur Institute’s Japanese […]

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: IKEA NOT giving away ‘dozens’ of sofa sets

By VERA Files | Nov 28, 2022 2:22 PM

A Facebook (FB) page has posted an announcement that IKEA is donating couches that cannot be sold due to “minor damage” to anyone who registers with the website it linked. This is a scam. The bogus giveaway posted on Nov. 17 and 19 came with photos of several sofa sets. It also had the caption: […]

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