Knock Knock

Knock Knock was Originally Posted on July 27, 2005 by lavarock

(I have no idea what this blog title means except maybe “who’s there”, as in, I don’t know who is sending me mail).

I continue to receive emails/spam from people wanting to sell me supposed prescription drugs. I guess they are making billions of dollars while fishing for customers, but I’ll never bite. I don’t know who does. While I am all for buying generic drugs, they have to come from reliable sources. Spammed (unsolicitaed email) from unknown sources is NOT a valid option for me!

I suggest people read the Forbes article in the May 23rd 2005 issue. It describes how a clandestine website in Canada may be getting its drugs from India or China. People were buying counterfit glaucoma drug found it contained boric acid (which is what we use in this country to kill cockroaches). Pardon the pun but THAT should open some peoples eyes.

Some druga analyzed contained no active ingredients or the amount varied widely. In one case an acne medicine had 17 times the active ingredient and the boy using it had a stroke.

I’m sure that thse people sending spam are making millions or billions of dollars and don’t care who they hurt. SOMEBODY is buying this stuff. I just can’t figure out why?

Then again, I can’t believe that people are still falling for the “I am xxx from xxx and I have these millions of dollars that I can’t get at. If you will let me launder it through your bank account, you can have half” type emails.

Then there are the messages in the newsgroups that have been circulating sinc time began. “This is completely legal. Just send money to the top names on the list….”. This scam is brought up to date by the recipients having a PayPal account. What people don’t realize is that all 5 names on that email may belong to the same guy and he gets $15 per email that people follow.

At least we had a laugh once when a guy in Alabama pleaded for people to send him a dollar towards him being able to keep his dialup account. A quick check of his connection showed a DSL connection to the internet…

You have to be careful out there and know that many people want to take your money.