The Food and Drug Administration is Going After Illegal Internet Pharmacies
Posted by Wade Burchette at 1:15 PM Annoyances | News
By now, you probably have gotten an email for cheap Canadian drugs. It is one of the most common forms of spam email. Cybercriminals use a variety of techniques to make a person's computer a spam sending machine. One of our earlier blog entries described how spammers make $1600 per day on Canadian pharmacy spam.
The FDA decided to take action. The FDA shut down 136 Canadian pharmacy websites. But that was not all. The FDA took steps to make it harder to operate a Canadian pharmacy website by sending warning letters to domain name registrars and some web site operators. Of course, cybercriminals are persistant and smart. As much money as they make, it is not in their financial interests to go down quietly into the night. Already, the cybercriminals take efforts so that if one site is shut down, your spam email link will just send you to another website.
It cannot be stated enough, do not click on spam emails. The most effective defense against spam is to ignore it. If it is not profitable or effective, the greedy cybercriminals will just move on to another scam. Just remember that spammers don't have your best interests at heart.
References: FDA takes aim at illegal net pharmacies from The Register