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Wednesday, June 11, 2014

How To Identify Medical Scams

By Kenya Campos


There are millions of people who are looking for a miracle cure for one ailment or another every day. They have many times explored the medicinal solutions and found them to be too expensive or ineffective in treating the problems they have. Other people are taken in by products that promise to prevent diseases such as cancer or heart disease. Medical scams prey on these individuals and their fears by offering magic cures and preventive products that can keep them healthy.

A scam can take any form but the most common are promises of penis enlargement, restoration of hair, weight loss and fake online pharmacies. One common thread of these offers is a promise of miracle cures for diseases that have no cures. Many are described as all natural and have no side effects for people who are using them.

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.

Fake pharmacies found online are the worst kind of scam artists. They operate by preying on desperate people who either cannot afford to pay retail for their prescriptions or by promising to deliver medications without prescriptions. The medications that are sent may be expired, foreign made or even totally fraudulent with no medicinal properties 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.

There are several ways to recognize e-mails from a fake pharmacy. The easiest way to prevent being targeted is never open mail from an unknown source but bear in mind there are a number of other tricks they can use to get past your spam filters. Misspelled words or extra spaces in the subject line is one way, unrelated subject matter in titles is another.

There are legitimate pharmacies online and they will have complete contact information listed on their sites. They will also not send prescription drugs without the proper paperwork required by law. Most fake pharmacies do not give out their contact information and will usually promise the drugs you want without a prescription.

There are so many ways that people are taken advantage of because they are gullible or too trusting. They want to find new or miracle cures for health issues and will believe individual testimonials from purported customers without following up with research through their doctors or pharmacists. Many times this practice can lead to far more serious problems for patients because they have delayed treatment in favor of some miracle cure that was found online.




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