Counterfeit pills mimicking a legitimate supplement being sold
When people buy medicines or dietary supplements, the vast majority go for brands that they trust in order to be assured of their safety and quality.
Recently, it was claimed that unscrupulous parties are making fake pills that mimic those produced by a legitimate manufacturer of supplements.
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Recently, it was claimed that unscrupulous parties are making fake pills that mimic those produced by a legitimate manufacturer of supplements.
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00:00When people buy medicines or dietary supplements, the vast majority go for brands that they
00:08trust in order to be assured of their safety and quality.
00:12As such, this also means that there will be those who will try to make fakes of these
00:16products in order to trick potential consumers into buying them instead of the legitimate
00:23ones.
00:24Recently, it was claimed that unscrupulous parties are making fake pills that mimic those
00:29produced by a legitimate manufacturer of supplements.
00:33At a press conference held on Thursday by MCA Services and Complaints Department Head
00:38Datuk Seri Michael Chong, Tazli Marketing SDN-BHD Managing Director Datuk Dr. Ravi Pakirisamy
00:45said that scammers have been using the name of a legitimate supplement to sell fake pills.
00:51So we find the scammers use our agent's data, they create one website, something like that,
00:59and put in social media, like they are the one.
01:03But people get confused when they are using our people, fake face, like they are talking.
01:08But you go to click, you purchase the product, go to their website.
01:11So what they do, they are selling it very cheap.
01:15For example, our product, this is our product, Tazli Dantium Plus Capsule, one of our supplements.
01:20We are selling for 135, they are promoting in the social media, they say they are giving
01:25offer, only 80 ringgit, 79 ringgit, you buy one, you get one free, because the company
01:31is closing down, etc, etc, they just put some word.
01:35And when they put in that way, inside they are giving support documents, also all the
01:38information from our agents, our dealers, they are using their information, they are
01:43putting.
01:44The minute they do the purchase, they are selling this kind of product.
01:47I don't know what product is this.
01:49Still they are selling some product.
01:51Different product.
01:52We are concerned, our customers who know our product, they will alert, they know this is
01:57Tazli product, this is something wrong.
01:59But people don't know about Tazli product, we worry, they consume this product, we don't
02:02know what will happen.
02:03Totally, this one I really don't know.
02:06Because no legal, no license, not registered in Malaysia.
02:11He said that he had received calls from retail agents and customers questioning if they had
02:16changed their formulation and labelling.
02:19Dr Ravi said he believes that the scammers could be operating overseas.
02:24However, he said that the company could not verify which exact country they were from.
02:29He said they started receiving calls in July and have filed a police report.
02:34In terms of monetary losses, he estimated that around RM200,000 in sales were lost.
02:40And that's why we want the public when purchase Tazli products, please make sure you are buying
02:46from the authorised seller.
02:48That means they click the people first, try to find the contact number.
02:51If they cannot find, they can contact our HQ, our tazlimalaysia.my.
02:56They can get the number, check it out in case they are not sure.
02:59We don't want them simply immediately because of the product price cheap, they immediately
03:03don't purchase.
03:04Make sure first they are buying the genuine product.
03:07That's our main concern here.
03:10This thing happened to many companies.
03:12So we want our press conference today is to alert the company to check.
03:20If they found such thing happened, they should report immediately to this cyber 999 where
03:26I give you all the, they should report to cyber 999.
03:31Chong also said that it was possible other supplement products could have been imitated
03:36as well and urged consumers to double check with the manufacturers or to buy them from
03:42reputable pharmacies.