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Your letters, comments, questions, Past Letters HAIR DRUGS FOR CROOKS — Beth Kelling Editors’ Note: The drug that the French refer to as ‘leuproreline acetate’ is spelled ‘leuprolide acetate’ in North America, and it is well represented (e.g. Lupron and Viadur) in the Drug Chart as part of a ‘drug class.’ Several other antiandrogens are identified in the Drug Chart by their generic name or drug class (e.g. spironolactone and finasteride). CAVEAT EMPTOR — PASS IT ON! As a student who paid a lot of money to take this course, I feel I was cheated out of a proper education. The tuition fee for the electrology course (advertised as a 500-hour course) was $4,500. For this I received just 26 hours of practical electrology instruction, four poorly made electrolysis training videos (which I had to return), some theory, some long talky lunches (I could have done without), a special “Skin Tags and Spider Veins” course (costing an extra $535), and a final exam and certificate. Pretty scary? I’ll say! After paying in excess of $16,000 to this school for tuition, equipment, and general supplies, and after graduating with a certificate, I must now continue to self teach myself the art of electrolysis and search out the necessary help and support I know I must get to achieve the results I should have received from my training. I hope that my story will alert the electrolysis profession as a whole, and be of help to new electrolysis students who might otherwise be taken advantage of like I was. There must be many similar stories to be told by former students of this school; but I can’t speak for others and I don’t even know if this so-called school will continue. Hopefully, electrolysis professionals who read this will pass the information on to those people who need to hear it. — Rhonda Stelter Editors’ Note: The FCEA suggested that Ms. Stelter send a copy of her letter to the appropriate Ministers of Health and Education, and to the Private Post Secondary Education Commission. The response from those sources has not been encouraging. Dear Hair Route: I have posted an alert on the AEA website, and contacted all of our current web advertisers. Those people in the USA should direct their e-mails to the FBI Web Fraud website at www.ifccfbi.gov — advertisers in other countries may have an equivalent government agency they can contact. I have forwarded you a copy of the e-mail that was sent to one of our classified advertisers. — Sheila Ahern Editors Note: Nigerian fraud rings in London and Amsterdam target people who offer items for sale on Internet Bulletin Boards and Classifieds. The checks sent for payment are forgeries and the seller is held responsible for the entire amount of the check. In the USA, advertisers who receive a suspicious e-mail or phone call promising money in exchange for performing a bank transfer, should report the e-mail to the FBI’s Internet Fraud Complaint Center (www.ifccfbi.gov) and forward it to the Secret Service at 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov where it will be archived. For advertisers who have lost money in a 419 scheme or are not sure about something that looks like it might be a scam, guidelines are available from the Secret Service (www.secretservice.gov) and the 419 Coalition (http://home. rica.net/alphae/419coal/). In Canada, contact the regional offices of the RCMP Commercial Crime Branch www.rcmp.ca, or contact Reporting Economic Crime Online (RECOL) at www.recol.ca or 888-495-8501. Also in Canada, the Phonebusters National Call Centre (PNCC) is very interested in receiving copies of any ‘new’ versions of Nigerian letter schemes, particularly those involving Canadian mailing addresses or telephone numbers. The 419 letters can be emailed to them at WAFL@phonebusters.com. Dear Editor: Catherine McLaughlin, owner of the Normal, Illinois business, Academy of Professional Hair Removal Clinic, filed suit against Rejuvenue International, Ltd. (Rejuvenue) on July 20, 2004. Ms. McLaughlin seeks monetary damages based on alleged violations of Illinois’ Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Businesses Practices Act (Consumer Fraud Act). The complaint alleges, inter alia, that Ms. McLaughlin purchased equipment called the Super Phaser Gold from defendant in 2001, in substantial part, as a result of false representations made by Rejuvenue that FDA clearances for the Super Phaser Gold had previously been obtained and/or that the Super Phaser Gold and the Transcutaneous Patch device is FDA approved. The complaint further alleges that despite a prior warning by Patricia L. Jahnes, Consumer Safety Officer for a department of the Food and Drug Administration, notifying defendant’s chief executive officer that “the patch epilator has not been cleared by the FDA for any indication” defendant continued to provide promotion materials for the Super Phaser Gold describing it as the “fastest and most effective permanent treatment on the market today; and the treatment is painless, and that permanence is equal to needle electrolysis.” The Illinois Consumer Fraud Act has a three year statute of limitations. Some states may have different limitations. Other purchasers of the Super Phaser Gold should contact their own attorney or Richard M. Manzella, counsel to Ms. McLaughlin, at (309) 454-8772 to discuss their specific legal rights. Richard M. Manzella can also be reached via e-mail at Richard.Manzella@jobattorney.com, or by writing to the Law Office of Richard M. Manzella, 112 Boeykins Place, Ste 3A, Normal, IL 61761. — Richard Manzella 25th ANNIVERSARY WISH During these years, you so successfully represented and served the best interests of electrologists worldwide, that you earned and deserve the highest respect and appreciation of every electrologist. This is a very happy occasion and I am confident that every electrologist will join me in wishing you continuing success. — Frank Kovacs
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