Spam that might kill you
The readers of this blog are probably too savvy to fall for products that are pushed in spam mail but you may know somebody who is not. Spam products may be more than hazardous to your pocketbook; they can be downright dangerous when they are medications. As you must have noticed, one of the main things spammers try to sell is various drugs and herbs. What you may get is a counterfeit or a dangerous chemical. Robert Vamosi writes about the dangers at CNET and gives an example of what happened to one person who used medications from the Internet:
Take the case of Marcia Bergeron, who, at the time of her death, had in her body a sedative, acetaminophen, an antidepressant, cough medicine, and a muscle relaxant. The 58-year-old British Columbia resident also had dangerously high levels of aluminum, phosphorus, titanium, tin, strontium, arsenic, and other metals in her liver. How did she get toxic amounts of metal in her system? Investigators examined her computer after her death and found she’d been shopping around the Internet for medications and ended up with counterfeits instead.
Of course, there are also legitimate providers like Medco and Caremark that many of us use for prescription drugs and they are not to be confused with the myriad of shady dealers.
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