Free trials of acai berry products are anything but free

No doubt you will have heard about the acai berry, especially if you live in America and watch television. Stars such as Oprah Winfrey and Rachel Ray have featured acai berries on their shows. The reason? Acai berries are a fruit rich in useful substances - more so than almost every other fruit on the planet. As a result of this surge in popularity, people have been jumping online to find acai berry products, but the trouble is that a large number of con artists are operating acai "free trial offer"� scams in order to trick people out of their money.

Acai berries are rich in antioxidants, fatty acids, amino acids and fiber. The fruit has been linked to enhanced energy levels, weight loss, anti-aging and so on. You won't, however, find acai berries in your local grocery store because the fruit is native of the Brazilian rainforest and it spoils within a day of being harvested. This is why acai berry products are the best way to get an acai fix. This is also why there are so many acai free trial offer scams on the Internet.

The Better Business Bureau (BBB) issued a warning about acai free trial offer scams on January 6. Online fraudsters tempt Web surfers with offers of free trials, but when people try to cancel their orders, they find themselves having inadvertently signed up for more acai products than they bargained for.

Tricksters put online and take offline dozens of acai berry websites every day. They draw traffic to these websites by using pay-per-click campaigns, such as with Google's Adwords. The websites in question offer "risk-free"� trials of acai berry supplements, but these trials usually end up costing a lot of money.

The rub with these scams is that shoppers have within an allotted time to cancel their orders. This is usually only 10 to 14 days after the order is placed, not from the day of delivery.

You may be wondering why people don't just cancel their orders. The answer is simple: the companies involved make it virtually impossible for them to be contacted. Buyers usually end up on hold for more than an hour before being disconnected.

Don't let this put you off acai berry products altogether. Not every company is out to steal your money. As a general rule of thumb, avoid any free trials of acai berry products and you should be fine. There are a large number of reputable companies selling acai berry products on the Internet.