Anyone passingly familiar with the tinnitus treatment space knows that there is a high prevalence of treatments that are not based on scientific evidence, or are simply outright frauds. This high prevalence of bogus treatments is attributable to the fact there there is no present tinnitus cure, and fraudsters attempt to fill the demand for a “total cure” product. Sometimes this deception escalates into outright fraud, as is the case here:

Fraudster conned pensioner with tinnitus out of £3,000 by persuading him to pay for a miracle cure that didn’t exist

• Cruel conman claimed he had been cured of the intolerable condition
• Richard Pearson preyed on victim after chance meeting on bus
• Pensioner became suspicious when 53-year-old backed out of lift to clinic
• Conniving trickster given a suspended sentence to allow him to repay cash