Secret Cure Ebook / Selmedica / Alvidar Maker Arrested -- Contact Authorities if You've Been a Victim
According to the Memphis Eyewitness News website, internet scam artist Perry Belcher was arrested Monday, March 24, 2008 "on charges of computer fraud, deceptive business practices and imitating a licensed professional."Belcher is the owner/founder of the company Selmedica (maker of phony thyroid treatment Alvidar and other supposed overpriced vitamin "cures" for various diseases), who also is the creator and promoter of the large network of fraudulent "Secret Cure to..." websites, where he sold expensive ebooks that he claimed were written by fictional medical experts, including Pat Harper. Here at the About.com Thyroid site, I exposed Belcher and his enterprises, and found that the photo of "Medical Expert" Pat Harper used by Belcher at most of his "Secret Cure" websites is actually a Clipart.com stock photo of a model dressed in medical scrubs. (See Scam Alert: Warning About Pat Harper and The Secret Cure for Hypothyroidism, and Other Secret Cure Health Reports)
According to the Eyewitness News site, "Authorities say Perry Belcher, 43, of Lakeland, was arrested for deceiving the public by 'selling over the internet what various websites claim to be different types of products and medical information to cure many different ailments.'"
According to Eyewitness News, the complaint against Belcher says that he has done business in the names of: Selmedica Affiliates, Selmedica Healthcare, Increase Media, HealthyRightNow.com, Spring Time Herbs, Perry M. Belcher Companies, Gotcha Marketing, and AMI, Inc.
If you believe you are a victim of Selmedica or Perry Belcher, Alvidar or any of the "Secret Cure to..." ebook/site membership scams, you are asked to call the Shelby County Sheriff's Office at (901) 545-3268 or email them at selmedica@shelby-sheriff.org.
Comments
John,
You are balancing one $17.00 publication against the entire drug company. Well, I am one of the people who purchased that publication. I downloaded it, looked at it and said “what a scam”. It was a few pages of information that is free on other websites. They offered money back so I asked for my money back. No answer. I just wrote it off. Then I got my credit card bill and found an additional fee of $14.95 which would be a recurring monthly fee for the privilege of accessing Belcher’s website. I didn’t authorize that. Now, that I did not write off. After multiple tries to contact that organization were ignored, I threatened recriminations from high places and got both charges reversed. Upon giving it some thought, in terms of Belcher’s 35 cure books and multiple companies and products, he was getting a huge amount of money for useless information, ineffective product, and monthly charges for the privilege of reading about those useless things on his multiple websites. People are always looking for ways to get well or improve their health. I would imagine Belcher was pulling in a lot of money. You said $17.00 may be a high price for people living in trailer parks compared to what you called drug industry scams. No matter what you think of drug companies, if you have an infection, the antibiotic you get will indeed contain that antibiotic and not be a placebo. Therein lies the difference.
You can see that Perry is a.k.a Mr. X and is marketing a training course ( which cost $1,997) about his money making methods with the $17 reports that is called the wholesale traffic system. It sold out to 500 members who wanted to know how he does it.
http://www.wholesaletrafficsystem.com
-J