Sunday, June 15, 2014

How To Recognize Medical Scams

By Kenya Campos


There are people who spend a lot of time looking for all natural cures for serious ailments. These people may have tried the treatments offered by their doctors and found them to be lacking in some way or simply have no faith in the medical profession as a whole. Unfortunately there are other people in the world whose main purpose in life is to take advantage of others by use of medical scams.

The most often seen types of scam focus on things that there is no cure for. They may advertise solutions for hair loss, weight control or perhaps a magic potion that can enlarge the penis. Another approach they use is through fake online pharmacies.

Weight loss is a forty billion dollar business in the United States alone. Most formulas and diet plans, whether real or not offer hope to the people who use them. That is the basis for all weight loss programs and any loss must be followed with life style changes and exercise regimes. The miracle weight loss pills that promise no effort from customers or to remove weight from one specific part of the body are a scam.

A serious danger to the public is fake online pharmacies. These companies take advantage of people by promising to provide their medication at reduced prices or without prescriptions. In truth the customer takes the chance of receiving drugs that are past their expiration date or manufactured in illegal or foreign labs. They may also be sent pills that look like the medication the need but in fact have no medicinal value at all.

Fake online pharmacies target people who are desperate because they may suffer from incurable conditions such as diabetes, MS, cancer or HIV. They use spam e-mail to contact their potential victims. Many of these sites are used as a means to gain access to bank accounts and credit card information. They are also used to transmit mal-wear into your computer that allows access to spy-wear that will infect your computer.

The fake pharmacies use various tricks to bypass your spam filters. They deliberately misspell words, place unrelated information in the subject line or use fake identities in the sender names. The best way to avoid accidentally accessing one of these sites is to never open any e-mail that is not from someone you know.

If the online pharmacy is offering to supply drugs to you at greatly reduced prices you can be pretty sure that there may be a problem with the medications. It is illegal to sell prescription medications without a prescription so if the company you are looking at offers to do this it may be a sure sign that the medicines you receive are fakes. Legitimate pharmacies can be found online and one way to easily recognize them is to check for physical address information and phone numbers. Once you research the company and verify that it is legitimate you may feel more comfortable placing your order.

The old adage about something sounding too good to be true cannot be emphasized too strongly when dealing with online medications. Companies who offer miracles or promise that their products will prevent you from getting ailments that are life threatening are probably not legitimate. Many of these companies were created for the simple purpose of taking advantage of desperate people who have limited options open to them.




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