You receive frequent emails offering you a free trial of the Hoodia Gordonii weight loss pill. It is a natural appetite suppressant that helps people control their appetite and without any side-effects. Due to these positive feedbacks it is the most popular weight loss program today.

There are many Hoodia diet pills floating around in the market today. Most offering you free hoodia trails - as a part of their marketing tactics. A good proposition for both - you get to use the hoodia and test it, they get a future market.

However, the downside of the proposition is that 80% of the free hoodia is not authentic! As only the original hoodia can suppress appetite, most tryouts, fail. These give a bad name and no market to the original hoodia sellers!

To avoid getting scammed look for two things - the CITES certificate and independent lab test results. CITES is a certificate, which all the companies who import and sell hoodia gordonii should possess. To protect yourself from fakes please check for the CITES certificate. Also to make the buyer's safety, the companies selling hoodia have some independent labs authenticate their products, these certificates are displayed on their websites. For your own health and safety, please do not buy from the  sites, which do not display the above two requisites.

There could be two possible scams where you could suffer. First, yes, the hoodia is free - but is it authentic? And the shipping and handling charges are paid by you. However small the fee - it is being charged to your credit card! The second could be, the hoodia may be authentic, you are given a certain trial period to sample it but of you do not inform your preference to the company you are enrolled into an auto-shipment program.

These auto-shipment programs charge your credit card and conveniently keep refilling your order every other month, the benefits are that you do not have to worry about the refill and you get discounted prices. However, if it is otherwise, please read the fine print, look for an e-mail or a phone number - try it - check you reach a live person, get the feel of the company and ascertain that you will be able to cancel your order if you do not benefit and only then go ahead as certain companies cannot be reached or simply ignore your request, leading  you to ruining your credit, handing out crucial information and emptying your wallet.