An unnamed clinic in Argentina has been accused of printing the same ultrasound scan for all of its clients.
The alleged scam was brought to light when a pregnant woman, Antonella, shared what she believed to be her 5D scan on Twitter.
Another woman responded to the post confusedly noting that she appeared to have the same image of her supposed child.
As the two women communicated, they realized that they had both been given the same photo from the same private clinic — which they did not name.
Once a third woman contacted them about also having the same image, the group of expectant mothers decided to launch an online search to find other women who had received the same 5D scan.
Antonella posted the images of the three scans on Twitter and quickly went viral as they began to investigate the supposed scam.
“For now, we are three moms who were scammed by a clinic with an image of a baby who is not ours,” the pregnant woman wrote.
“It goes without saying that alongside that, they charged us a lot of money. We are currently looking for more mothers with the same scan to come forward.”
After the post went viral with 5.5 million views, dozens of women reached out to the women claiming to have also received the same image.
The three women who first connected said they received scans for their expected boys, but the same image appears to have also been used for girls.
The alleged victims accused the private clinic in Formosa, Argentina, of scamming women with fake 5D scans and plan to find more victims before filing a formal complaint with the judicial authorities.
They added that they want to raise awareness of the situation and prevent more women from being scammed.
One mother said: “I think I literally have the same photo, taken in 2017. What’s more, in a moment of anger, I went to complain because they didn’t realize my daughter had Down syndrome.”
Another said: “When I wanted to do an ultrasound the guy who attended me told me not to do it as it’s a waste of money because the machine creates an automatic image and they are almost all the same.
“He showed me other ultrasounds and they were all identical.”
Someone suggested: “You have to do a class-action lawsuit, you and all the mums this happened to can join the same claim.”
“Find a lawyer.”
Unfortunately, these women aren’t the first who claim to have been conned by medical professionals.
A woman in Sydney went viral on TikTok sharing her cosmetic surgery horror story that led her to join a class-action lawsuit against her famous doctor.
Tori Dejong explained that she received the procedure three years ago and has been part of a class action lawsuit against her surgeon, Dr. Daniel Lanzer, for several years now.
While the class-action lawsuit appears to be ongoing, the celebrity cosmetic surgeon surrendered his medical registration to the national regulator in December 2021, and immediately retired, according to the Sydney Morning Herald, which investigated the scandalous medical practitioner.
Lanzer promoted “himself as the world’s leading cosmetic surgeon on TV shows, in popular women’s magazines and on social media” for 30 years and reportedly accumulated over $100 million.
But after an outpouring of “safety and hygiene issues and botched surgery allegations,” Lanzer was investigated by the Australian Health Practitioner Agency and cleared his social media accounts which previously boasted millions of followers.
He then surrendered his license as he was reprimanded by regulators and shut down his practices.
