Spam pharmacies get ads on Yahoo, Bing
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
More than 80 percent of internet pharmacies advertising on Yahoo offer prescription-only medications without a proper prescription, according to researchers who earlier found similar laxity in policing online pharmacy ads on Bing.
LegitScript.com, an online pharmacy verification service, and KnujOn.com, an internet compliance company, said they were able to buy prescription drugs without a prescription from Yahoo pharmacy ads. In one case, the drugs were imported from India, which is prohibited by U.S. law.
The companies reported that PharmacyChecker.com, the pharmacy verification service for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, approved an online pharmacy that sold drugs without a prescription imported from India.
In an earlier report, the two companies revealed that they had purchased prescription drugs without a prescription and had been sent counterfeit medications from pharmacies advertising on bing.com.
The online pharmacies with ads on Yahoo and Bing are the same type of operations that send out spam email advertising medications and are usually connected to criminal operations, the report said.
"We're making this a public issue because it's time for this to stop," KnujOn president Garth Bruen said.
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