Here's the catch: Financial Plus Investment snags investors by promising attractive returns.  But payments soon fizzle and investors soon sizzle as their plans, goals and dreams vanish along with their money and the company itself.  Everything about the company seems to be minus; the only plus is the one in its name.

Financial Plus does business in Mission Hills under a variety of names, including Financial Plus Mortgage, Eagle Funding, Phoenix Realty, and Rockwell Financial Network.  Jose de Jesus Lopez, a principal of the companies, also goes by a number of other, in his case similar, names.  The company advertises on Spanish-speaking radio and TV, and our files contain some printed materials in Spanish.  All complaints we’ve received so far are from complainants with Hispanic surnames.

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Here’s the catch:  MedAesthetica performs LipoZap procedures on clients seeking to shed body bulges. At least some who undergo one or more treatments endure physical pain, swelling, and bruising, and at least as much mental anguish at the hands of the company’s customer service department--even if they can never contact it.  They would have to conclude that treatment wasn’t all for nothing, though, because they’ve certainly lost any bulge they had in their pocketbook.

MedAesthetica’s website claims that LipoZap is a “combination therapy” developed by their clinicians.  One client describes her treatment as the use of a suction machine, then a lot of injections after warming the area.  Other sources add that what is injected is a combination of medications that will cause fat to breakdown, emulsify, and be excreted out of the body.