In the News – Fake Doctor Claimed He Could Cure Hair Loss

Snippet from the article:

Timothy Syed Andersson billed himself as dermatologist to the stars. Andersson, known to his patients as Dr. Syed, had a wall of photos at his home office in San Francisco’s Lakeshore district, showing him with actress Julia Roberts and actress-model Elizabeth Hurley, Nobel laureate Linus Pauling and other notables.

His Web site boasted of his research that had led to cures for everything from stretch marks to hair loss. San Francisco prosecutors say it was all a lie.

Read the full article at SFGate –Fake doctor fleeced patients, prosecutors say

As the article points, this guy was a con man with fake credentials, Photoshopped images, and was indicted in Sweden before fleeing to the US 14 years ago. He set up shop here and he was able to bilk people out of thousands of dollars each for treatments that were total BS. Shameful.