How To Recognize Medical Scams
by Kenya Campos
There is an old saying that states "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is". The myriad of cure-all products advertised in magazines, infomercials, mail order and most recently the internet surely fall into this category. Many desperate people who are concerned about their health become victims of <A href="http://www.mortontavel.com">medical scams</A> every day.
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.
Losing weight is something that virtually every woman in this country has faced at one time or another. The diet pills seen in infomercials on television usually promise that the customer will have no diet changes and no exercises to do. These claims are false and when ordering the formulas you will be advised that it works much better if exercise and diet restrictions are employed. Another popular claim is losing weight from a specific part of your body by taking the pill. This claim is not realistic or true.
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.
Another aspect of fake pharmacies is that they identify and focus on people who suffer from the worst of incurable diseases. Those who have diabetes, terminal cancer or HIV are their main targets. They use e-mail advertisements to contact them and many times use that initial contact to seize their credit information for illegal purposes.
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.
Pay special attention if they offer drugs that are priced dramatically lower than you would normally pay. If they are offering to sell drugs that normally require a prescription without the benefit of that prescription you may be pretty certain that the pills you receive will be fakes. Another key method of knowing is a lack of street address or land line telephone number. These companies do not stay in one place long enough to establish any permanent information.
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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Title: How To Recognize Medical Scams
Author: Kenya Campos
Email: nathanwebster335@live.com
Keywords: medicine, health, treatment, healthy
Word Count: 553
Category: Medicine
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