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Call last week from 020 7186 0083 about an "exciting new digital health magazine". Smooth patter purred like a scam-cat but I easily resisted the pushy invitation to subscribe. Subsequent investigation revealed that www.yourwellness.net via http://whois.domaintools.com/yourwellness.net is run by an Ajit Patel.

This looks to be the same Ajit Patel of Sanda Wellbeing Ltd. The very same company which has been calling me from 020 8619 0070 https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/02086190070 to sell me pills..

I urge you all to take care when answering; before you know it they will have your credit-card number and it won't just be an "exciting new digital health magazine" you'll be getting but boxes of worthless pills!

Similar experience to the above person except that a Mr Kitt was after a cheap advertorial in our newspaper to promote YourWellness Magazine edited by a Dr Sarah Brewer. Declined as it all sounded rather hollow. Instead I think they may be getting an expose on their sister company Sanda Wellbeing owned by the same ex Goldshield chap Mr Patel. The good Dr Sarah Brewer should now better what with the number of warnings from NHS GPs about Sanda Wellbeing and Sanda Wellness on here and on NHS surgeries' sites

http://insolvency.presscentre.com/Press-Relea ... nies-65662.aspx

Twenty-seven companies involved in the mis-selling of health supplements have been wound up in the High Court following an investigation by Company Investigations of the Insolvency Service.

The investigation found that all of the companies (see list below) had their registered offices in the County Durham area but traded internationally, mainly from locations in Barcelona and Malta by placing "Free Trial Offers" for health supplements on numerous websites.

Customers responding to a "Free Trial Offer" supplied their payment card details believing that only a small charge to cover postage and packaging (typically £3.95) was required.  However, if the customer  failed to cancel the “Free Trial Offer” within the cancellation period (usually 15 days) they were deemed to have agreed to an ongoing supply of the product from the companies, at a cost of around £70 to £80 each month.

Commenting on the case, Stephen Speed, Chief Executive of The Insolvency Service said;
"The Insolvency Service is determined to come down hard on companies who seek to rip off the public by mis-selling products.  I urge all consumers to be vigilant when it comes to ‘free trial offers’, and remember if it looks to good to be true, it often is."

Analysis of the available records for just seven of the companies found that they had turnover in excess of $19 million in the period August 2009 to March 2010 which was processed through merchant accounts based in Germany.

The products offered by the companies included Acai Berry Detox, Acai Power, Effective Acai, Acai Detox, Absolute Acai, Colon Cleanse Fresh, Colon Purify, Life Cleanse, Resveratrol, Resvmax, Miraculous Teeth Whitening, PureClean Teeth, Dermasensation and Dermainfuse.

The investigation found that there was a serious lack of transparency as to who controlled the companies with the named directors being otherwise unconnected individuals residing in the Consett area of County Durham. Those spoken to by the investigators said they knew nothing about the affairs of the company of which they were the only director and said their only  task was to forward any post received for the companies to a local formation agent, Brinken Merchant Incorporations Limited. Each had been approached to act as a director by Brinken who paid them around £150 a year.

However, the Court heard that 25 of the companies were found to be under the common control of Local Billing Solutions Limited ("Local Billing"), a company registered in Malta. Local Billing maintained throughout the inquiry that it acted only as a payment processor and that the beneficial interest in the companies belonged to Canonizado International, a company said to be registered in Panama, of which the investigators could find no trace. On the documents available, the investigation established that the beneficiaries of the companies’ trading were most likely to be Local Billing and its principal Clayton Douglass.

Grounds for winding up the companies included,

·   The websites used by the companies misled customers into believing that the trial offer was risk free and limited in nature,

·    The terms and conditions of the offer were designed to confuse the customer and were not provided in any durable medium,

·   The length of the trial offer was not made clear.  Customers were provided with a 30-day supply of the product, but had, typically, only 12 days from receipt of the product in which to cancel any future supply,

·        The companies abused the privilege of trading through a limited company by effectively continuing the same method of operating as that used by Trading Planet Limited, Viv3lab Limited and Vivera Limited.

Those three companies having previously been wound up by the Court in the public interest.
The winding up orders were all made on 26 August 2010.

Winding up petitions were presented on 21 June 2010 against:-
LB Belvedere Limited, LB Cygnus Media Limited, LB Deluxepass Limited, LB Eridanus Entertainment Limited, LB Evil Angel Limited, LB Friendfinder Limited, LB Global Web Solutions Limited, LB Internet Media Productions Limited, LB Ilogic Solutions Limited

Winding up petitions were presented on 22 June 2010 against:-
LB LFP Internet Limited, LB Lyra Entertainment Limited, LB Nomad Media Limited, LB Pegasus Media Limited, LB Price Communications Limited, LB RSC Limited, LB Southint Prop Limited, LB Watt Media Limited

Winding up petitions against the following companies were presented on 23 June 2010 and on 25 June 2010 the Official Receiver was appointed as Provisional Liquidator of the companies:-

LB Carsed Marketing Limited, LB Nakedsword Limited, LB Cassiopeia Media Limited, LB Cybernet Entertainment Limited, LB RHS Limited, LB Pride Studios Limited, Intercontinental Consignment Logistics Limited and Gillmap Limited Petitions to wind up Fyso-UK Limited and H5-UK Limited were presented on

13 July 2010.
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Notes to Editors

1   A full list of the companies, their dates of incorporation and registered office addresses may be obtained by contacting the Insolvency Service Press Office (details below)

2   The Insolvency Service administers the insolvency regime, investigating all compulsory liquidations and individual insolvencies (bankruptcies) through the Official Receiver to establish why they became insolvent. The Service also authorises and regulates the insolvency profession; deals with disqualification of directors in corporate failures; assesses and pays statutory entitlement to redundancy payments when an employer cannot or will not pay employees; provides banking and investment services for bankruptcy and liquidation estate funds; and advises ministers and other government departments on insolvency law and practice.  Further information about the work of The Insolvency Service is available from http://www.insolvency.gov.uk

3   All public enquiries concerning the affairs of the companies should be made to: The Official Receiver, Public Interest Unit, 2nd Floor, 3 Piccadilly Place, London Road, Manchester, M1 3BN. Tel: 0161 234 8531 Email: piu.north@insolvency.gsi.gov.uk

4   Media enquiries should be directed to: -
Denise Rawls           Press Office Manager             020 7634 6910
Ade Daramy             Press Officer                         020 7596 6187
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Phone 020 7596 6187
Email ade.daramy@insolvency.gsi.gov.uk

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Yes this Your Wellness health magazine sounds suspect...

Firstly it is owned (see job ad. below) by Sanda Wellbeing Ltd, who have a thread on here packed with complaints from victims, stories from the press and dire warnings from trading standards, the police and NHS counter fraud (see https://whocallsme.com/Phone-Number.aspx/02086190070/41 )

Secondly it appears to be comprised of articles rewritten to avoid outright plagiarism by people on the minimum wage (see job ad. below).

What is more, judging from the statement, "Yourwellness Publishing Limited is an educational magazine that is currently delivered to affluent households, and an online knowledge base of wellness. Our concept is based on health and wellbeing that is edited by Dr Sarah Brewer.", the author of the advertisement is incapable of stringing two sentences together.

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http://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/content-writer/22258597

Gatwick, West Sussex
£6.19 per hour
100+ applications
Job type: Permanent, full-time or part-time
Date: 12 November 2012
Reference: 22258597
Posted by
Sanda Wellbeing Limited
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Who we are:

Yourwellness Publishing Limited is an educational magazine that is currently delivered to affluent households, and an online knowledge base of wellness. Our concept is based on health and wellbeing that is edited by Dr Sarah Brewer.

Role:

You will be re-writing 3-5000 words a day from article links that we would give you. You must be able to identify the legal compliances and requirements, in terms of copyrights when writing an article.

You articles will be based on health, wellbeing and lifestyle news & stories that are relevant to our audience. You should have a knack of writing in lay terms to involve the readers in your articles and entice them to carry on reading.

You will need to be creative and self-motivated and able to work on our internal systems

We are looking for Part-time workers to cover an array of 10-20 hours a week. We are open to offering full time positions if you have a lot of previous, provable experience. [S1]

Whilst the wage is set at the national minimum there are performance related bonuses which will raise your salary.

Working from home you will be responsible for producing content without supervision.

Skills, Experience and abilities:

- Experience in content writing on an engaging basis

- Ability to communicate effectively

- Good computer skills

- Ability to organise

- Educated to at least GCSE level or equivalent [S2]

- Excellent English

- Excellent analytical skills

- Passion for writing

- Able to self-motivate and produce quality work at a quick rate.

Desirable skills, experience, abilities and personal qualities:

- Flexible and adaptable

- Good team player with the ability to work independently on own initiative

- Quick learner

- Good organisation skills

- High attention to detail

- Enthusiastic

- High level of communication skills

- Passion for social media such as Blogging and Facebook to link in resources

I wonder if need would be interested in knowing that they are taking job adverts from a company which cons elderly and vulnerable people out of hundreds of pounds?  Would they even care?

Yourwellness Publishing Ltd is shortlisted for Gatwick Diamond New Business Of The Year Award
Gatwick based Yourwellness Publishing Ltd has been short-listed for New Business of the Year at the 2013 Gatwick Diamond Business Awards, but what does that really mean?

Yourwellness, the gateway to living well
Yourwellness is superb. Not only in the coverage of the different aspects around the topic of wellness, but in the final presentation & layout of the publication.
Crawley, Sussex (PRWEB UK) 10 March 2013

It means Yourwellness are recognised and reliable, it means that they're moving in the right direction and that their rapid expansion, sophisticated business plan and potential growth are, at worst, the eleventh best new business in Sussex.
The magazine alone has expanded a great deal in the short time that the company has been trading. Though initially it was only available to those in the North Sussex area, it's now free to those as far away as Brighton.
By May, Yourwellness magazine will be available at all major London train stations too which marks the next step in the development of the company.
Yourwellness is a young company that’s growing rapidly and its website is a testament to this. In the last three months it has evolved into “the gateway for living well” and is updated almost hourly by a dedicated local team of writers, researchers and editors. Yourwellness is a company on the rise, it's only a matter of time before it becomes a household name.
The magazine is free to pick up and is also delivered to homes across Sussex which has proven a winning formula for local and larger advertisers alike.
Sian Burton, Marketing Manager at Care UK stated that “The team at Yourwellness couldn’t be more helpful or nicer to deal with. Not only that, but the publication has provided us with several enquiries that have gone on to convert, providing a good return on investment.”
The readers of Yourwellness seem equally impressed. One regular reader said “I think that Yourwellness is superb. Not only in the coverage of the different aspects around the topic of wellness, but in the final presentation & layout of the publication. I’m sure it’s been hard work, but the result is well worth it. I am sure that it will be very successful and I look forward to seeing future issues.”
Yourwellness also stands by its mission that access to information about how to live well should be easily available and publish their magazine digitally at http://latestissue.yourwellness.com
There are also iOS and Android apps available so that everyone can live well.
If you’re more interested in a physical copy of the magazine then Copies can be found at your local Sainsbury’s, Tesco’s, Asda, Virgin Active (Crawley) and Nuffield Health (Crawley).

Where did you get this blurb from?  Do the people who have "shortlisted" this rag know of its connection to Sanda Wellness (or whatever it is calling itself this week)?

I have just e-mailed Care UK to see if they are, in fact, endorsing this company and, if so, do they know of the Sanda business practices.