David Hoffman of American Hair Growth Centers EXPOSED!
Posted by William Gaunitz on Wed, Jan 06, 2010 @ 09:09 PM
Has anyone been following American Hair Growth Centers? If you have, you may be asking yourself: Who is David Hoffman, "the hair guru"?
After all of the fuss with Natural Hair Growth Institute and their fraud charges, NHGI is probably not a place that you can trust to grow your hair back. Yet, it appears that without question American Hair Growth Centers is... Natural Hair Growth Institute, simply renamed.
For the sake of argument, lets assume for a minute that American Hair Growth Centers is a real company. Even though there is no Illinois corporation record under that name. Ok... then who is David Hoffman?
After some investigation it turns out, David Hoffman "the Hair Guru" is .... (drum role)... no one. He is an Istock Photo image. (See Image 3). Link to Istock David Hoffman, an another, and another.
In fact, he is the same Istock image that was used on the Natural Hair Growth Institute's site "The Bennis Solution" page. (See Image 2 below).
Even more interesting, there is a glitch in the American Hair Growth Centers site. When you scroll over the founder bio page, The Bennis Solution appears in the drop down box (see Image 4 below). Yes, the very same Steve Bennis of Natural Hair Growth Institute.
One more thing about Hoffman: In David Hoffman's bio he states " I started to lose my hair at 18 years old... At first I tried Rogaine. The dermatologist recommended that I use 5% Minoxidil AKA Rogaine".
How old is Hoffman? Maybe early 40's judging by his picture (the Istock photo). That would make him 18 years old in the late 80's. Minoxidil 5% was not even available over the counter until December of 1995. The only form of Rogaine available at that time was 2%. Hmmm...interesting.
As a colleague wrote me today, "Would the real David Hoffman please stand up"!
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One more thing, the old www.naturalhairgrowthinstitute.com website forwards to American Hair Growth Centers. That's weird.