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In the latest online scam, con artists are stealing millions from people unknowingly ordering the drug online from fake websites while putting their health at serious risk with imitation products.
Under federal law, health care fraud in the United States is defined, and made illegal, primarily by the health care fraud statute in 18 U.S.C. § 1347 states [4] (a) Whoever knowingly executes, or attempts to execute, a scheme or artifice— (1) to defraud a financial institution; or
People shopping for bootleg software, illegal pornographic images, bootleg music, drugs, firearms or other forbidden or controlled goods may be legally hindered from reporting swindles to the police. An example is the "big screen TV in the back of the truck": the TV is touted as "hot" (stolen), so it will be sold for a very low price.
Selling counterfeit illicit drugs is illegal even if the substances used to make the imitation drug are not illegal on themselves. [3] [4] It is illegal to distribute or sell counterfeit fake drugs in many U.S. states including Nevada, [5] Ohio, [6] Illinois, [7] Florida, [8] Michigan [1] and Massachusetts. [3]
Unfortunately many people get caught up in discount heath schemes rather than real health insurance. As millions of people lose their employer-based health insurance after being laid off, they ...
According to the FBI, "smishing" is a "social engineering attack using fake text messages to trick people into downloading malware, sharing sensitive information, or sending money to cybercriminals."
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Quackery, often synonymous with health fraud, is the promotion [1] of fraudulent or ignorant medical practices. A quack is a "fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill" or "a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to have skill, knowledge, qualification or credentials they do not possess; a charlatan or snake oil salesman". [ 2 ]