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How To Identify Medical Scams

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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.

Most of the cures will be prefaced by stating they are all natural, previously unknown, something your doctor is hiding from you or recently re-discovered in an ancient civilization. The items most often advertised deal with enlargement of the penis, restoring lost hair, losing massive amounts of weight and those always present online pharmacies that can get anything you want with or without a prescription. The thing these things have in common is that they deal with conditions that have no cures.

The weight loss business generates over forty billion dollars a year and most of the supplements and appetite suppressants fall into the scam description. They may offer a pill that causes weight loss without any significant changes in your lifestyle or eating habits but the truth is to lose weight and keep it off you must reduce your caloric intake and increase the amount of exercise you do on a daily basis.

Fake online pharmacies take advantage of desperate people by promising to deliver their medication with or without a prescription. Many time the medicines they provide can be expired or produced in labs that are in foreign countries. They may also be made of ingredients that have no medicinal value at all.

Many fake online pharmacies will contact potentially new clients through spam e-mail messages. Some of them are simply fronts for criminal access to your credit information or for loading up your computer with malicious spy ware and key loggers. They target people who are seriously ill with incurable diseases such as diabetes, cancer, HIV or AIDS.

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.

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.

Some people will turn to miracle cures for answers to health issues. By doing this they may be jeopardizing their health in much more serious ways because they delay receiving effective treatment that their doctors can offer.




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