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MyCanadianPharmacy - My Canadian Pharmacy - Bogus - Scam Artists
BBB Issues International Alert:
Online Pharmacy Seller Using BBB Trademarks to Market Drugs
For Immediate Release
[Arlington, VA, July 29, 2005] -- The Better Business Bureau system today issued an alert about online pharmacy sites that are displaying the BBB's trademarks to market drugs on the Internet. People from every region of the United States are contacting the BBB to inquire about the legitimacy of a "business" that is targeting consumers through spamming. The e-mail messages contain claims that the company is "Verified by the BBB" and include a hyperlink to different web sites all using the same name MyCanadianPharmacy, Ltd. (not to be confused with Canada Drugs, Ltd. that owns Canadian Pharmacy Online - Canada Pharmacy Offers Discount Prescription Drugs Canada Drugstore - CanadaDrugs.com and www.mycanadianpharmacy.com).
The web sites involved in this scam use at least the following addresses:
All of the web sites use the same template, display the BBBOnLine Reliability Logo and an untrue message claiming to be "Listed at Better Business Bureau." This practice misleads consumers and violates United States trademark, counterfeiting and copyright laws.
These sites are in no way affiliated with the Better Business Bureau. The BBB does not recommend visiting these sites, as there is some evidence that the sites may try to download software to visitors' computers.
The Council of Better Business Bureaus is unable to identify precisely who is behind these fraudulent Web sites because whoever registered them submitted phony contact information to the registrar. It does appear, however, that most of the spam messages originate from Korea.
To check if a particular company is a legitimate participant in the BBBOnLine program, go to Search BBBOnLine Reliability Participants. A BBBOnLine Seal MUST be clickable; meaning that once one clicks on the seal, a confirmation window opens and explicitly states that the company is a participant in the BBBOnLine program. Also, the address bar on that BBBOnLine confirmation page must show an address including "http://www.bbbonline.org. For example, see the BBBOnLine "confirmation page" for BBBOnLine participant Procter and Gamble at BBBOnLine Seal Verification.
For more information on any aspect of BBBOnLine, please visit BBBOnLine, Inc. -- Promoting Trust and Confidence on the Internet.
Better Business Bureau
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