Health Scams

For the US, report at Report Health Fraud

• Online Pharmacies
• General Health Scams

Online Pharmacies

If you buy pills and potions over the Internet from people you don't know and can't trust, what do you think are the odds they are safe or do what they are supposed to?

DEA Comments About On-Line Pharmacies - www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/pressrel/diversion_actualities_transcript.html
FDA on Imported Drugs - www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUsingMedicineSafely/BuyingMedicinefromOutsidetheUnitedStates/default.htm
FDA on Counterfeit Drugs - www.fda.gov/oc/initiatives/counterfeit/default.htm
Avoid Fake VIAGRA - https://www.viagra.com/buyrealviagra/avoidingFakeViagra.asp
Canadian Internet Pharmacy Standards - www.napra.org/pages/Practice_Resources/information_for_consumers_about_online_pharmacies.aspx
Buying Drugs over the Internet - www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/iyh-vsv/med/internet-eng.php
Verified Internet Pharmacies - www.nabp.net/
Pfizer takes on Viagra spam in Holland - www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/15/viagraspam_pfizer/
Medicines investigators tackle the illegal sale of medicines over the internet - www.mhra.gov.uk/home/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&useSecondary=true&ssDocName=CON2024822&ssTargetNodeId=389
How Viagra spam works - modernl.com/article/how-viagra-spam-works
Canadian killed by poison pills bought on the net - www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/23/net_pills_poison_woman/
Hundreds of Websites Outed for Illegally Selling Steroids - www.darkreading.com/security/app-security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=211201160
Buy glucobate! - www.consumerdirect.gov.uk/watch_out/Commonscams/miracle-cures/glucobate/

General Health Scams

People push all sorts of funny ideas about health in spam. To show you why you shouldn't ever be tempted to trust what you read in spam read all about what is real and what isn't in the emotionally charged world of quack cures.

FTC on Health - www.ftc.gov/bcp/menus/consumer/health.shtm
The National Council Against Health Fraud - www.ncahf.org/
Quackwatch - www.quackwatch.org
Health Watcher - www.healthwatcher.net/
Quack Files - www.quackfiles.com/