Fake AI Health Repair Device: False claims of thousands of metric detections and disease prediction years in advance, actually ordinary electronic products

Who Gets Targeted

The main victims are middle-aged and elderly groups over the age of fifty and their small elderly care institutions. Such groups often suffer from chronic diseases, feel daunted by the difficulty of making appointments and long queues for medical checkups in tertiary hospitals, and desire to master their own health status at low cost; at the same time, they generally lack common sense in medical device registration and cannot distinguish the boundaries between electronic products and medical devices. They naturally trust sales personnel wearing white coats, speaking professional terminology, and playing the banner of charity, and are easily breached in psychological defense by warmth rhetoric such as free experience, expert lectures, and limited-time discounts, paying for equipment and high annual fees under the recommendation of acquaintances and the atmosphere of conformity. After being deceived, due to a sense of shame, they are often unwilling to make a fuss, delaying the timing of rights protection.

骗局怎么运作

• Step 1 Packaging technology apparel: Name ordinary electronic physiotherapy or massage equipment as AI health repair devices or AI health monitoring devices, claiming on store billboards, promotional brochures, official accounts, and video accounts that they can detect tens of thousands of health indicators, and even claiming to predict diseases one to five years in advance, using terminated or invalid patent certificates as technical endorsements to make ordinary-looking products appear to have medical-grade capabilities.
• Step 2 Community charity traffic generation: Enter residential areas and elderly care institutions in the name of free health lectures, community charity experiences, and expert free clinics to carry out activities. Staff claim to be health consultants rather than salespeople, first doing so-called AI testing for the elderly for free, and generating a seemingly professional report full of abnormal indicators with the equipment to create health anxiety.
• Step 3 Intimidation-style conversion: Exaggerate and interpret the report item by item, turning normal aging phenomena into precursors of major diseases, claiming that without equipment intervention it will develop into a serious illness, cooperating with shills making personal testimonies that their indicators returned to normal after use, inducing the elderly to place orders on the spot to buy equipment ranging from thousands to tens of thousands of yuan.
• Step 4 Binding annual fee harvesting: Charge annual service fees ranging from hundreds to thousands of yuan under the pretext of cloud health records, continuous AI model upgrades, and one-on-one expert interpretation, and promote batch procurement plus annual maintenance plans to elderly care institutions, promising to provide stationed health management services, forming a dual cash flow of equipment payments and annual fees.
• Step 5 Shrinkage and running away: When complaints increase or they are targeted by regulatory authorities, they stop offline services under the pretext of system upgrades and store relocation, customer service phone numbers become empty numbers, official accounts are deregistered, promised annual service fees are completely interrupted, and equipment hoarded by elderly care institutions degenerates into scrap iron without after-sales service, only to find out when protecting rights that the contract subject is a shell company.

红旗信号（看到这些快跑）

• 🚩 Claiming that a non-invasive device can detect tens of thousands of health indicators and predict cancer and other major diseases years in advance exceeds the capability boundaries of any formal medical device, belonging to typical pseudo-scientific rhetoric.
• 🚩 The product cannot produce the medical device registration certificate from the National Medical Products Administration. The body or manual is marked with ordinary electronic product implementation standards, yet it uses prohibited words such as medical-grade and clinical-grade for publicity.
• 🚩 The so-called patent certificates displayed have long since been terminated or invalid upon inquiry, or the patent content is only appearance design, having nothing to do with the core detection technology promoted.
• 🚩 Using charity lectures and free physical examinations as a cover to enter communities and elderly care institutions, conducting closed-door brainwashing and limited-time discount sales urging on-site, refusing consumers to take reports home for verification.
• 🚩 Mandatorily bundling high annual service fees in addition to equipment payments, accepting only cash or requiring transfers to personal accounts, where the contract subject is inconsistent with the actual promoted brand.

真实案例

• In the typical consumer protection cases published by the Suzhou Municipal Market Supervision Bureau in 2025, Suzhou Guankin Health Technology Co., Ltd. promoted an AI health repair device to middle-aged and elderly consumers in Zhangjiagang through store billboards, promotional brochures, official accounts, video accounts, and community charity experiences, claiming to be able to detect 12,000 indicators and predict diseases one to five years in advance. Law enforcement officers verified that the product was actually an ordinary electronic product, and the three patent certificates it displayed had all been terminated, becoming irrefutable evidence of false advertising fabrication.
• According to multiple reported cases compiled by the Laorenbang platform in June 2026, several sixty- and seventy-year-old elderly people including someone surnamed Jia were induced by similar AI testing rhetoric in community health lectures, spending tens of thousands of yuan to purchase so-called smart physiotherapy equipment and paying annual fees. Afterwards, they found that the equipment had no medical device registration certificate, the stores were empty, and their elderly care savings suffered heavy losses.
• According to 36Kr's 2026 in-depth report on the AI elderly care market, some small elderly care institutions were pushed to purchase batches of AI health monitoring equipment and annual maintenance packages. Institutional head person surnamed Yi reported that shortly after payment, the so-called stationed services and AI report interpretations stopped, and the equipment reduced to decorations. Family members in multiple places have filed complaints with market regulatory authorities regarding such procurement by nursing homes.
• In June 2025, the People's Court of Pudong New Area, Shanghai disclosed a case of tricking the elderly into buying 'health products' at high prices: Defendant Ni Mourong used free New Year Eve dinners and small gifts as bait, picking up the elderly to farmhouse resorts in dedicated vehicles to attend lectures, fabricating that 'dihydroquercetin' products had cancer prevention and anti-cancer efficacy, selling them at dozens of times higher than the cost price, with the amount involved reaching over 620,000 yuan, and the main culprit was sentenced to ten years and three months. (Source: [https://www.163.com/dy/article/KFMRH55C0550B6IS.html](https://www.163.com/dy/article/KFMRH55C0550B6IS.html))
• On September 30, 2024, the Yichang Intermediate People's Court sentenced a major elderly care fraud case: Four main culprits including Song Mou recruited crowd actors to shoot promotional videos, designed scripted sales pitches, and impersonated wellness experts to peddle so-called 'miracle health wine'. Over 30,000 elderly people were cheated of more than 1 billion yuan, and the 4 people were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment ranging from life imprisonment to ten years for the crime of fraud. (Source: [https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s67ef14eee4b068c68f11eac6.html](https://xinwen.bjd.com.cn/content/s67ef14eee4b068c68f11eac6.html))

Official Stance

• In September 2025, the Suzhou Municipal Market Supervision Bureau published typical cases of the consumer protection special action, naming the Zhangjiagang false advertising case of AI health repair devices, reminding consumers to distinguish the boundaries between ordinary electronic products and medical devices.
• In June 2026, public security organs issued early warnings through anti-fraud reports, pointing out that the AI concept is being used in new scams targeting the elderly, reminding family members to be vigilant against health product and equipment promotions under the names of smart testing and health prediction.
• In the crackdown and rectification of elderly care fraud and iron fist actions carried out by the State Administration for Market Regulation over the years, ordinary electronic products claiming disease prediction and therapeutic efficacy have repeatedly been listed as key targets for false advertising rectification, and reporting channels have been announced.

How to Protect Yourself

• ✅ Before purchasing, log into the official website of the National Medical Products Administration to check whether the product holds a medical device registration certificate. Do not purchase any equipment that has no registration information whatsoever yet claims to detect, predict, or treat diseases.
• ✅ Maintain vigilance against charity lectures and free physical examinations entering communities and elderly care institutions. Abnormal index reports issued on-site can be re-examined and compared by regular hospitals. Do not blindly trust or pay on the spot.
• ✅ When involving equipment plus annual fee models, require the other party to write service content and interruption compensation clauses into the contract, pay through public accounts and request invoices, and refuse cash and personal transfers.
• ✅ Elderly care institutions procurement should verify suppliers' medical device business qualifications and after-sales service capabilities, try out in small batches first and agree to pay based on service results, avoiding one-time advance payment of large annual fees.
• ✅ If fictitious efficacy promotion is discovered, immediately call 12315 to report to market regulatory departments. Suspected fraud cases should be submitted to public security organs along with transfer records and promotional materials, and pay attention to retaining evidence.