Online Pharmacy Spam and Scam

Increasing mobility due to the internet is now affecting the health market. Drugs can now be purchased online. This is called the online pharmacy. The main advantage of online pharmacy is that the patient can buy the drug from home. At the same time it is convenient to the patients, simultaneously it is advantageous for the pharmacies because they can reap a profit.



Are you fed up with all the unwanted e-mails in your inbox? The increased competition between online pharmacies had increased Spam, and Scam online.



Spam:

Spam is basically sending unwanted e-mails indiscriminately. Most of the time these e-mails will be advertisements. You probably have seen e-mails that advertise certain goods or websites in your inbox. Those e-mails are spam. The e-mail itself may not be particularly a threat, but the problem is the time that needs to be spent. Imagine your inbox filled with these unwanted e-mails. It will certainly take time to find the e-mail that you want to read. Thus, the e-mails can lead to an overload of the account. Sometimes these spam can contain computer virus, or can lead the users to websites that steal personal information. This is called phishing. Clicking links or opening files from unfamiliar e-mails are very risky. The best solution available for spam today is the anti-spam software. The anti-spam software implements a filter, which filters the unwanted e-mails. The filter is interchangeable by the user. Yet, the anti-spam software is not perfect, and will still allow some unwanted e-mails to pass through.



Scam:

Scam is an illegal act of deceiving online users. Some people may act as if they are a representative of an online pharmacy, and offer a drug at a cheap price, where the individual is truly a person with no knowledge about drugs. Scam is undertaken with the intention of either stealing money, or stealing personal information. Users will need to be careful that they are on an authentic website when they buy any good online.



Issues

Cost- of buying anti-spam software.



Ethics- Unethical to deceive people into spending money, or giving personal information



Reliability- The authentic website should have a method to prove that they are authentic to the users. The anti-spam software should be reliable, and not delete the wanted e-mails.



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