Fraud Awareness & Payment Safety

Vitalabs Fraud Awareness Center

Recognize impersonation, payment fraud, and AI-enabled scams

Scammers may misuse a trusted company name, create convincing messages, or invent a billing relationship that never existed. This guide explains what Vitalabs does, what we never do, and how consumers, customers, vendors, and business partners can verify a suspicious request.

Guidance updated August 2026

Vitalabs payment policy

Vitalabs never accepts PayPal-type payments

Vitalabs does not accept PayPal or any PayPal-type peer-to-peer or digital-wallet payment service for any customer payment. This includes PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, and similar payment apps.

If anyone claiming to represent Vitalabs asks you to send money through one of these services, the request is not an authorized Vitalabs payment request. Do not pay it. Contact Vitalabs independently using the information on this website.

  • No PayPal
  • No Venmo or Cash App
  • No Zelle or similar apps
  • No payment to an individual

Common fraud patterns

Schemes that may misuse a company name

Fraud can begin by phone, email, text, social media, a search result, a QR code, a mailed invoice, or an unfamiliar billing descriptor. One scheme may combine several of these tactics.

Unauthorized charges and fake auto-ship

A consumer is charged for a product, trial, membership, or recurring shipment they did not knowingly authorize. The seller or billing descriptor may misuse the Vitalabs name even though Vitalabs did not process the transaction.

Warning sign: A consumer subscription or recurring charge referencing Vitalabs.

Business and brand impersonation

Scammers copy logos, names, addresses, employee names, or website language to create fake stores, social profiles, invoices, customer-service listings, or account notices.

Warning sign: A lookalike domain, altered email address, or contact information that does not match vitalabs.com.

Phishing, smishing, and QR-code scams

Email, text, or QR-code messages create urgency around an invoice, delivery, account hold, refund, or payment update. The link may steal passwords or financial information or install malicious software.

Warning sign: Pressure to click, scan, sign in, or “confirm” payment details immediately.

Fake support, refunds, and recovery

A fake support representative offers to cancel a subscription, issue a refund, recover lost money, or remove a charge. They may request remote access, a fee, a verification code, or sensitive account information.

Warning sign: Paying or sharing passwords to receive customer-service help.

Invoice and payment-diversion fraud

A criminal compromises or imitates a business email account, then sends a believable invoice or asks that legitimate payment instructions be changed. This is often called business email compromise, or BEC.

Warning sign: New bank details, secrecy, unusual urgency, or a last-minute change in payment method.

Fraudulent purchase orders and credit terms

Criminals impersonate a real company or employee to obtain products on Net-30 or Net-60 terms. They may provide fake purchase orders, W-9s, credit references, shipping destinations, or identity documents.

Warning sign: A new buyer using a near-match domain, inconsistent shipping details, or unverifiable references.

Shipment and delivery impersonation

A message claims that a Vitalabs order is delayed, undeliverable, or subject to an added fee. It may direct the recipient to a fake tracking page or payment form.

Warning sign: An unexpected shipment notice or a small “redelivery” payment request.

Account takeover and verification-code theft

A scammer poses as an employee, bank, platform, or support desk and asks for a password, one-time code, multifactor prompt, or remote access. Those details can let the criminal take over an account.

Warning sign: Anyone asking you to read back a security code or approve an unexpected login.

Emerging threat

How artificial intelligence changes fraud

AI does not make a request legitimate. It can make an old scam faster, more personalized, and harder to recognize by eliminating spelling mistakes and creating realistic voices, images, documents, and video.

22,364 AI-related complaints were reported to the FBI’s IC3 in 2025, with nearly $893 million in adjusted losses. Read the FBI report

Voice cloning

A short public audio clip may be enough to imitate a relative, executive, customer, or employee and create an urgent request for money or information.

Deepfake video and live calls

Synthetic or altered video can impersonate executives, authority figures, or support representatives—even during what appears to be a live conversation.

Personalized phishing at scale

AI can quickly generate polished messages using names, job roles, suppliers, public posts, and previous conversations to make a request feel familiar.

Synthetic identities and documents

Fake IDs, product images, purchase orders, credentials, testimonials, and social profiles can be generated to support a false identity or transaction.

Automated fake support

Fraudulent websites may use convincing chatbots or automated agents to keep victims engaged and guide them toward malicious links or payments.

Do not rely on appearance, writing quality, a familiar voice, or video alone. Independently verify the person, company, request, and payment method through a trusted channel.

Before you act

Use this five-step verification check

  1. 1

    Pause

    Urgency, secrecy, threats, and unusual payment instructions are reasons to stop—not reasons to act faster.

  2. 2

    Leave the message

    Do not use its link, QR code, reply address, or phone number. Open a new browser window and type vitalabs.com yourself.

  3. 3

    Verify independently

    Call Vitalabs at 800-241-3017 using a known number. Ask for the person or department involved.

  4. 4

    Check the payment method

    A PayPal, Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, similar app, or payment to an individual is never an authorized Vitalabs payment method.

  5. 5

    Confirm changes twice

    Verify new banking, shipping, contact, or payment instructions through a second trusted channel before sending funds or products.

If something already happened

Act quickly and preserve the evidence

  • Contact the financial institution or card provider immediately. Ask about a dispute, payment stop, transfer recall, or account protection.
  • Secure affected accounts. Change compromised passwords, enable multifactor authentication, and contact your IT or security team.
  • Save records. Keep emails, texts, envelopes, screenshots, URLs, phone numbers, billing descriptors, transaction details, and dates.
  • Report the incident. File with the FTC, FBI’s IC3, local law enforcement, and any affected payment platform.

Trusted resources

Learn more and report fraud

Authoritative sources used for this guidance

This page provides general fraud-awareness information and does not replace guidance from your financial institution, legal counsel, law enforcement, or a cybersecurity professional.

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