The law is bringing the pain on coronavirus tricks, as to confirmed by the capture of a man who the Justice Department asserts had offered a solution for COVID-19 that as far as anyone knows had the help of b-ball legend Magic Johnson.

Keith Lawrence Middlebrook, 53, was captured late Wednesday evening after he professed to have pills for forestalling coronavirus and a "patent-pending" injectable solution for those contaminated with the infection.

No known COVID-19 fix or antibody is yet accessible, and law implementation bodies over the world have been cautioning about scamsters professing to have such medicines.

Individuals tuned in to Middlebrook, as well, as per the DOJ, which said his Instagram and YouTube recordings talking up his "fix" had chalked up 2 million perspectives.

Forbes explored the Instagram page referred to by the Justice Department, which has 2.4 million supporters and in which Middlebrook asserted not exclusively to be the maker of the coronavirus fix, yet in addition the "Genuine Iron Man" and a "Virtuoso Entrepreneur," just as a designer and an on-screen character.

(That last case sounds trustworthy.) In an Instagram video from March 10, 2020, Middlebrook told 250,000 watchers that individuals shouldn't stress over coronavirus, as Trump had it "checked from the beginning."

In another video, he said individuals expected to take mineral enhancements in the first part of the day and evening, and eat lean proteins like chicken, fish, and eggs, so as to battle coronavirus.

Yet, he was busted when he met with somebody he thought was a speculator, however, was in truth an FBI operator, as indicated by the administration's record. Middlebrook had constructed a false business—Quantum Prevention CV Inc. (QP20)— that guaranteed that for a $1 million speculation, an investor could receive as much as $100 million consequently, the criminal grumbling read.

What's more, however, he guaranteed Magic Johnson was a financial specialist, the previous Lakers player affirmed to the specialists he had made no such venture.

"While this might be the main government criminal case in the country originating from the pandemic, it unquestionably won't be the last. I again am asking everybody to be incredibly careful about shocking clinical cases and bogus guarantees of tremendous benefits," said U.S. lawyer Nick Hanna.

Forbes endeavored to contact Middlebrook's direction from a past misrepresentation case from 2014, in which all charges were dropped, however, had not gotten a reaction at the hour of production. Calls and a message to his Instagram account likewise hadn't got a reaction. What's more, he's honest until demonstrated liable.

There's been a flood of COVID-19-themed tricks, including Android malware that comes masked as a coronavirus contamination map and a phony Fox News article asserting that CBD oil can help treat the disease.