Relying on people’s desperation to try anything and everything for their well being, scammers manufacture plastic wristbands with hologram stickers on them.

The bracelets are advertised as providing better balance, strength, and flexibility, by working in synergy with the wearer’s “natural energy field”.

You might have met young agents trying to sell you these in the mall mobile booths, saying things like “the hologram is made out of negative ions in titanium - let’s do the balance test”. The wonder-wristband might be endorsed even by famous athletes, but in reality they are nothing but a scam.

How to avoid: if you believe in results, you’ll get the results – but it’s not because of a piece of plastic.