Beware of Salvare

by Kevin Rands | May 13, 2016 4:02 am

When you see the name “Salvare” or receive a “Hair Loss Solutions Newsletter” in the mail, BEWARE…Many of our users have contacted us complaining of a recent Email onslaught from a company whom they did not request any emails from. Last month, this company identified itself as “SALVARE”, run by a Dr. Marcus Jones, selling new hair loss treatments[1] touting all kinds of amazing results. They started stealing email addresses from hair loss discussion forums[2] and newsgroups, and without requesting permission, added these email addresses to their distribution list. After a close review of the ingredients in Salvare, we exercised our duty as a site dedicated to spreading accurate information on new treatments, and declared this product non-efficacious for the treatment of hair loss.

In their first mailings, Salvare continued in their unethical footsteps by using HairlossTalk’s name, as well as the name of another reputable hair loss site in their Emails, to give the impression that we were working together with them. Both sites immediately demanded removal.

Soon after, the emails took a new turn, and a “Newsletter” was announced called the “Hair loss Solutions[3] Newsletter”. These mailings were sent using the email address “hair1ossta1k@yahoo.com”, an obvious and blatant attempt to fool people into thinking we were sponsoring them. Several emails were sent to the SALVARE folks at several different email addresses requesting immediate cessation of this unethical conduct and repeated SPAMMING of thousands of stolen email addresses. All emails were ignored.

As emailings continued, consumers began expressing outrage at Salvare for the abuse of their private email addresses, and continued spamming. Dr. Jones actually replied at one point challenging one of these consumers to meet him in person so he could inflict physical harm on them, commenting that they surely were weak. It was reported in the alt.baldspot newsgroup[4] that Dr. Jones had his medical license revoked for use of illegal Steroids several years ago.

In the most recent newsletter, the writers of the newsletter claimed to be completely independent from the SALVARE web site and snake oil products. Mr. Jones must have forgotten he used to sign the Emails himself… after well over 10 to 15 emails sent by this company, the most recent mailing sent on Feb 27 still says at the bottom of it: “Forgive us if you received this notice in duplicate but there was a computer glitch that occurred during mailing. This is the only correspondence that you will receive from us unless you request additional information.”

Steer very clear of this treatment, and do not be deceived by the seemingly informative newsletter they’re sending out.

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