ITCES Corp.

I ran into some information on the weight loss drug, Obestrin, and a clinical trial they were recruiting for. I sent in some info and everything appeared legitimate and I was "accepted" into the study. I became suspicious when I was asked to send in $100. I did some research and could find nothing legitimate about ITCES Corp, or Obestrin. All of the websites and information on the web appeared legitimate but when you dig deeper you will realize it is a scam. I checked all of the FDA clinical trials and could not find anything about Obestrin or ITCES.

The only info on the web are posts that are spammed across various message boards and health articles on the web; they all say how great Obestrin is. Even on this website, you can tell they saw the negative post and then went ahead and put in the fake one about how great the drug is. Another clue is that they say the study is 6 months and only recently began accepting people into the study but there are posts of people saying they completed their study and have lost weight and gotten paid.

The claims of the weight loss from this drug are great, losing 30% of you weight. Don't you think there would be more information about this great drug on the web, a phone number for ITCES, and information on the FDA website? They say this is a phase 3 trial, yet nothing on the FDA site about phase 1, 2, or 3. I emailed the company asking why they are not on the FDA site and got no response. Even if this helps prevent one person from getting scammed then I am glad I took the time to post this. I also reported the company and their site to the FDA.

I want to tell you about my experience with ITCES Corp. I was in an earlier study which ITCES did on AVT12. I understand that AVT12 is the same as Obestrim, just a different name. The trial lasted a year. In that time, I lost 73 pounds and it has changed my whole life. Angie and Linda were helpful and really cared about how I was doing. I was told at the beginning what to expect and what actually happened for me was even better. My complaint is that I can't be in the Obestrim trial because I was in the earlier one. For your information, ITCES is not from Colorado. They were talking about a future Denver office last year. My copy of the study papers list a Los Angeles headquarters address and phone number. So does LinkedIn. **. It has been 6 months since I finished with the AVT12 and I am starting to gain weight again.

I found what I thought was a clinical trial for a new weight-loss product called Obestrin. The website (**.com) seemed legit. The wording seemed clinical and I even read the different reports about the hormone Obestatin that they had on the site. Most of it was over my head, but it proved there was such a thing. This ITCES corp was moving on to the second phase of research (**.info or **.com) with technical sounding wording, so I thought I'd see if I could be in the "clinical trial". You had to send in a $100 completion deposit (to weed out the people who just wanted free pills) and at the end of the study, after 180 days, they would give you a $350 completion incentive. I wasn't interested in the money as much as the supplements. However, I decided to do some due diligence and this is what I found.

I noticed on Colorado's Corporation Commission website that ITCES Corp is in delinquent status (documentation available upon request), and the principal street address listed for the company is a residential bungalow. I also find it suspicious that there is no physical, mailing, or even corporate phone # on the ITCES website, only an e-mail. All the Google results only pertain to the Obestrin study. I could not find reference to other documented studies that ITCES has conducted to lend credence. The phone # listed for Paul * comes back, through Intelius, to an unverified phone # with no name or company (documentation available upon request).

Then I went to see about the domain names, ***.com, ***.info, and **.com, and ran into another brick wall. The names were only recently registered (in February of 2010), and they were registered through a proxy (documentation available upon request), which means that the person setting up the website didn't want their identity known. If ITCES was a legitimate company, this information would be readily available/verifiable. The address listed on the e-mail Renee ** sent, ** ***, appears to be a self-storage facility/mailbox rental place and the picture on Google maps looks nothing like what's on their website.

They have probably received thousands of dollars from unsuspecting consumers, who might actually receive 180 days worth of dummy pills. I couldn't find anywhere on the internet that it was a scam but I'm sure it is.