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Kimkins Review

This episode of the Dick Van Dyke show is called Never Name a Duck.

Professional affiliate marketer Wouter Van Dyke has done what most pros do with sites that market products that have had the new wear off. He has moved on and ceased working on Kimkins Review but he has left it on autopilot so that it can still potentially generate some revenue. Some Kimkins critics have tried to convince him to remove the fraudulent claims from the site, using the argument that he is at risk of civil or legal action. Wouter is probably correct in his assumptions about the situation. The old TV show has two opening credit scenes, the one shown above and also one in which Van Dyke deftly walks around the ottoman.

A Review of Diets in Review’s Review of Kimkins

The most dramatic part of that effort to bring the truth out about Kimkins is of course the seemingly unlikely finding of all those Russian Bride pictures. A less obvious but arguably more important effort involved getting the truth all over the first page of a Google search for Kimkins. When everyone was actively blogging as events unfolded and more facts came to light, the Kimkins website itself was just about the only site that was promoting Kimkins on that page. I knew better than to ever think Kimkins.com would lose its spot.

Right now, Diets In Review has the number two spot. It’s not often that you will see a blogger that is happy to have a site ranking higher than their own for a term, but I really am in this case. This is the review site that included a rebuttal from Tippy Toes as an addition to their review. This is a great read for people who are keeping up with current drama related to the woman. The succinct review was very accurate when it came out. The face/ass saving efforts in the interim have generally involved repeatedly tweaking the plan on a point by point basis in response to criticism. There is no plan at this point, and yet there is still a site at which you can pay $60 for the plan, although not with PayPal. I hope lots of people who are searching for an answer to a weight problem find the review first even though it is only number two on the search for Kimkins.

When is a Review Not a Review?

When it’s Kimkins Review.  A die hard but faceless affiliate of Kimkins updated his/her website on the 15th of November with some vague gobbledygook.  This was obviously done to get the false claim comfortably below the jump on the landing page.

Yes, Kimkins Review still trumpets the false claim that Kimmer lost 198 pounds in 11 months.  This lie was posted on September 18th and as of today it is still on the site.  Whoever is responsible for this must still be getting checks in the mail.  Maybe someone should slip a REALITY CHECK into the next envelope.

Kimkins Scam Exposed on National Television

Fox’s national morning show, The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet, profiled Kimkins as part of their diet scam expose series yesterday.  The Morning Show brought a doctor and nutritionist on for their opinions.  Former administrators Christin and Deni told their stories about the fraud and their issues with the diet.  Jeannie Baitinger (TippyToes) and Delaney (Singinglass at Kimkins, an admin who has done most of the banning when people have asked questions about Kimmer) also appeared.  The biggest bombshell is that Jeannie announced that Heidi is, indeed, Kimmer.  After hearing the thinly-veiled disgust in Tippy’s voice when viewing the Heidi Diaz surveillance tape (”look at the woman”) don’t you wonder how long Tippy will be employed by Heidi?

Jimmy Moore recorded the segment and uploaded it to YouTube.  Watch it now:

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Part IV

The Kimkins Scam Exposed on KTLA

KTLA is a local fox affiliate in Los Angeles. They are airing a two-part expose (the first part last night, second part tonight) on the Kimkins diet scam. The newscast features never-before-seen hidden camera surveillance footage of Heidi Diaz (Kimmer), so don’t miss it. Here’s a link to the first part!

Kimkins Spotlight: Google AdWords

Our readers have had tremendous success in getting the message about the Kimkins scam to Kimkins affiliates — good work!  All three of the affiliates we have spotlighted so far have pulled their links.

Now it’s time for the big guns, because we want to stop one of the major sources of new signups for Kimkins.com — the paid ad placements on Google and Google network sites from Google AdWords.  If you go to Google and search for “Kimkins” you will see that there are ads at the top or right side of the search results.  These “Sponsored Links” are paid advertisements from Kimkins affiliates or Heidi herself.

Google has a policy of refusing ads for sites featuring “miracle cures” and Kimkins is certainly marketed as a miracle cure for obesity.

Click here to contact Google AdWords to encourage them to remove these Kimkins.com ads and prevent future advertisers from buying links to Kimkins.com.  Remember to tell them:

• The “Kimmer” success story is untrue and fraudulent.  Kimmer (Heidi Diaz) is a morbidly obese woman and there is no evidence that she ever lost the weight (http://www.slamboard.com/category/kimkins-diet/).
• A great number of the other success stories are fakes using stolen pictures.
• The Kimkins.com claims of weight loss are exaggerated and unreasonable:  ” There’s no faster diet! None!”  “They’ve been told their entire lives they should be happy with slow 1-2 lb a week weight loss.  How depressing and untrue!” “Kimkins is perfect for all diabetics!”
• The Kimkins.com site advocates extremely low calories, laxative abuse, and even fasting.
• Many Kimkins dieters have suffered side effects such as heart palpitations, menstrual irregularities, hair loss, dizziness, and faintness.
• Many Kimkins members have been banned for no good reason and the site is currently rated D with the Better Business Bureau (http://www.labbb.org/BBBWeb/Forms/Business/CompanyReportPage_Expository.aspx?CompanyID=100055868).

Kimkins Affiliate Update: WLTips.com

UPDATE:  THE AFFILIATE LINKS APPEAR TO BE GONE — THANK YOU, LIZZA! 

While Lizza at WLTips.com has removed Kimmer’s fraudulent interview and changed Christin’s interview to reflect Christin’s concerns about the Kimkins diet now, WLTips.com is still affiliated with Kimkins. Note the Kimkins affiliate link at the bottom of this page. Therefore, in our view WLTips.com is knowingly participating in the Kimkins fraud and could be liable for damages that arise as a result. Please contact Lizza (lizza@wltips.com) and strongly encourage her to sever the affiliate ties. Lizza, if you are reading this, do the right thing!!

Kimkins Affiliate Spotlight: DietsInReview.com

UPDATE:  GREAT WORK, EVERYONE!  DIETSINREVIEW.COM RESEARCHED KIMKINS, CHANGED ITS REVIEW ACCORDINGLY, REMOVED ITS AFFILIATE LINKS, AND EVEN POSTED ABOUT THE FRAUD IN ITS BLOG.  THANK YOU, DIETSINREVIEW.COM! 

Time to work on getting the news about the Kimkins scam to another Kimkins affiliate. DietsInReview.com is promoting the Kimkins diet as an affiliate (http://www.dietsinreview.com/diets/Kimkins/) with a completely positive “review.” There is a place to put comments, so make sure to make your opinion about the diet and the scammer Heidi Diaz known.

Then use the contact form (http://www.dietsinreview.com/contact/) to contact the affiliate and inform them about the issues surrounding Kimkins and Kimmer. Remember to tell the affiliate:

• Kimkins marketing is fraudulent. Kimmer (Heidi Diaz) is morbidly obese (see the PI pictures at www.slamboard.com). She is not the lady in the red dress and there is no reason to believe that she ever lost 198 pounds.
• Kimkins and Heidi Diaz are facing a class action lawsuit and Heidi Diaz is being investigated for fraud.
• The diet is dangerous and people are getting sick.
• When the Kimkins assets are frozen, affiliates will not be paid their commissions.
• Affiliates who knowingly participate in this fraudulent marketing may also be liable for damages.

Also, we have an update on the WLTips.com Affiliate Spotlight from last week. While WLTips.com has removed Kimmer’s fraudulent “success story” and amended Christin’s story, they still have some affiliate links up. Get in touch by writing to lizza@wltips.com.

Funniest Kimkins Recap Ever

This recap of the Heidi Diaz/Kimkins/Kimmer scandal is wickedly funny:

From what I can ascertain things kept getting worse with more people getting sick/ questioning Kimkins advice and many started being banned as anti-Kimkins, jealous of the plan because they were too weak to follow it. Fast forward to Heidi Diaz’s ex business partner hiring a private investigator out to figure out what the frock was going on with all of this because throughout all of this nobody had ever met kimmer! What was discovered was that Heidi Diaz has disappeared up her own arse, evidenced here:

This really is a picture of Kimmer. So if she has lost 91 kilos and is now 118lbs (53kgs) she claims she is, then I am an anorexic. Seriously dude it looks like her left cheek alone is 53 kilos. Please, take no offence fat people of the world for I walk among you but come-the hell-on! What universe accepts THAT as 53 kilos? At the claimed weight she should packing a nice little pair ‘o peaches, not giant fucking pumpkins ready for weigh in at the fair. I think she might have lied a little on her resume - oopsie!

It seems that the private investigator discovered that Heidi Diaz is a bald (like Telly Sevalis bald), morbidly obese woman. Again oopsie! So all the advice she has given her members has been shall we say, a tad misguided.

3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Article: Anatomy of a Diet Scam

Click here to read an excellent article on the Kimkins diet scam.