Another Day Another Busload Goes To Banned Camp

Looks like the Cap'n Morgan was out this weekend and the ban button was utilized in full fury!

Welcome Miss Merize and the newest additions to the Kimkins
banned camp!

Check out Miss M's blog and join the Kimkins lawsuit.

A very good synopsis of the Kimkins fraud timeline

Confused by the long convoluted history that is the Kimkins diet scam story?


This site has an excellent synopsis of the time line.

Have a look and beware of Kimkins.

From Laura Dolson,
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2002 to December 2007

2002 - Heidi Diaz, under the screen name "Kimmer", develops her version of a low-carb diet on the Low Carb Friends diet discussion boards. She reports dramatic weight loss. Some people try her diet and discuss it on the boards. This goes on for several years, with a fair amount of controversy.

2006 - Amid much negativity, in June 2006 Heidi left Low Carb Friends and with a partner who later left, founded Kimkins a fee-based Web site.

January 2007 - An issue of People magazine features people who have lost a lot of weight. One of them credits Kimkins along with another diet. This is the beginning of attention to Kimkins from outside the low-carb community.

June 2007 - Woman's World magazine features Kimkins on the cover.

At this point, the Kimkins Web site explodes with new members, taking in over a million dollars in the month of June alone.

July 2007 - Controversy in the low carb community outside of Low Carb Friends builds quickly. Heidi does a public interview on Jimmy Moore's Livin' La Vida Low Carb Podcast, which brings her further exposure. Inside Low Carb Friends, a dedicated group of members has been working hard for some time to expose Kimkins as a scam and a fraud.

August 2007 - Anti-Kimkins material (mainly blogs) on the net are now spreading like wildfire. People are beginning to report serious side-effects of the diet, and controversy has ramped to a fever-pitch. Kimkins hires a PR director to help deal with the problems. Behind the scenes, we later learn that key administrators are seriously questioning the diet. This leads to them quitting or being fired in early September.

September 2007 - Kimkins administrators leave, including PR director Christin Sherburne, who later reports many symptoms including chest pains and low heart rate. A private investigator was hired to determine the true identity of Kimkins "Kimmer and photos are posted. A lawsuit is organized.

October 2007 - The story is broken on KTLA-TV (more details here, including links to video). Photos are exposed as fraudulent.

Also, as I had a guest membership on Kimkins I responded when Kimmer posted something false about my review. In that message, I warned members to be careful about their health (copy of that message here). I was banned 10 minutes later.

November 2007 - Heidi Diaz is called for a public deposition where she finally tells the truth about her identity, finances, and her fraudulent claims. Kimkins is discussed on a national morning TV show. Another PR director, who appeared on that show, left Kimkins. (More Details on All of This)

To this point, the diet is unchanged. There is no minimum recommendation of vegetables, carbs, or even food on most of the Kimkins plans. If followed to the letter, the option labeled "most popular" would contain less than 600 calories and could be much less. Most worrisome of all is that people would not necessarily know if their bodies were being damaged until it was too late.

Do you know this woman? Kimkins is using her pic!

Have you seen this woman?

Kimkins has been using her picture on the website and all over the internet. We know it is not Heidi Diaz and we know she used fake pics not only for herself but her before and after stories as well.

If you know this woman please contact Medusa on her blog!

Stop the fraud that is Kimkins.

Want your Kimkins money back?

Want your money back? Want Kimkins to have to return the fraudulent funds Heidi K Diaz scammed?

The last six weeks have revealed a myriad of problems with the diet plan found on the Kimkins.com website. There are health issues, identity issues and even the issue of general plan information being free elsewhere on the web.

The history of these findings can be accessed all over the web.

If you are a member of Kimkins.com or were a member of Kimkins.com, you are eligible to participate in a class action lawsuit that is being organized by John E. Tiedt of www.tiedtlaw.com.

There is strength in numbers and every voice counts!!!

If you would like to be a representative in the Kimkims.com Class Action Lawsuit, please send the following to kimkinslawsuit@yahoo.com:

1.) Your legal name and mailing address

2.) A telephone number where you can be reached between the hours of 11am-8pm EST

3.) The amount you paid Kimkins.com

4.) The approximate date that you joined Kimkins.com as a paid member

You will not have to appear in court or pay a dime.

More rats deserting the Kimkins ship?

Has Tippy Toes flipped?

More on the flippy Tippy Toes flight from the sinking Kimkins Titanic.

Kimkins links you need to know

Sign the petition
Request for Kimkins Investigation Petition
This petition goes to the Federal Trade Commission, Better Business Bureau, and the California Attorney General.

Contact the Federal Trade Commission
Federal Trade Commission - Offices and Bureaus
“The FTC enters Internet, telemarketing, identity theft and other fraud-related complaints into Consumer Sentinel®, a secure, online database available to hundreds of civil and criminal law enforcement agencies worldwide.”

Internet Crime Complaint Center
Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3)
The IC3 is co-sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C)

Lawsuit
Kimkinslawsuit’s Weblog

IRS tax fraud
To make a report to the IRS that Heidi Diaz may be committing tax fraud-
How Do You Report Suspected Tax Fraud Activity?

BBB
To do a review at the Better Business Bureau
Company Report
If you feel that Kimkins/Kimmer/Heidi Diaz has not been truthful in advertising and is dangerous and file a complaint if the situation applies. A review first though.

Office of the Inspector General
To Report Possible Social Security fraud
Report Fraud to the Hotline

Address and Contact Information for Kimkins that is needed for the forms
Kimkins Address-
529 North McKinley Street 104-309
Corona,
CA 92879 Phone-(951) 258-3976
LINKS TO HELP YOU FIND A HEALTHIER YOU:

kimkins-refugees-support
Thyroid
Building a healthy way of eating based on kimkins
Compiled Research on VLCD risks by a Pinch of Health
A Beginners guide to lowcarbing
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Kimkins Lying Liar Admits She Lied

Heidi Diaz has had to admit in public and on tape that she is a lying liar who lies. Don't you love that phrase? I see it used in the same sentence as Kimkins a lot lately and it fits.

In case you haven't seen the latest check out the KTLA news report on Kimkins or as they call it Kim Kins .

Very telling.