The cheater site appears as a well -known Finnish pharmacy
Pharmacies|The Finnish Pharmacy Association advises you to avoid websites that advertise and propose that they sell prescription drugs.
Obscure The website is a Finnish, well -known pharmacy chain.
The site uses the name, contact information, history and pharmacy logo registered by the Pharmacy Association.
Hyvinkää’s first pharmacy pharmacist Antti Puustinen says that he noticed the first time in the name of the Vale pharmacy about a year ago.
He says he had reported the crime at the time and also discussed the matter with the Cyber Security Center. The authorities were removed from the content of the site, but the fake pharmacy has succeeded in continuing their operations by changing their name and domain.
The scam site is still in operation and is currently being performed under the name Happy Pharmacy. However, in the history section of the site, it still tells the history of Hyvinkää’s first pharmacy.
« This spring, the issue came up again when a few pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies contacted that there was still this information, » Puustinen says.
Wooden says that anyone can write about the history of a pharmacy online and there is little influence.
« There is no my predecessor or my information, but there is information about previous pharmacists. They are dead, so they can’t prosecute, » Puustinen says.
On its website, the fake pharmacy still tells the history of a Hyvinkää pharmacy.
Puustinen does not know if someone has made an order from the Vale pharmacy, thinking they were on the Hyvinkää 1st apartment.
« I hope no one is sniffing at this. Pharmacies have been considered reliable places and hopefully they will continue to be in the future, » he says.
Consumer There is no way to know what the products sold by the scam pharmacies actually contain. There may be a risk of obtaining a counterfeit.
Director of Communications of the Pharmacy Association, pharmacist Erkki Kostiainen According to a fake pharmacy, ordering yourself to health risk.
« There is no guarantee that the product comes from this kind of order. It may be that the money will just go, » he says.
Sites may also fish for their customers’ information.
Suspicious In addition, fake pharmacies can advertise that they sell prescription drugs that online pharmacies cannot sell or advertise at all.
“We want to warn it because it may be tempting to use these false pharmacies with the help of drug availability issues,” says Kostiainen.
Kostiainen According to the authorities, it is quite difficult to close the fake pharmacy sites completely. The Happy Pharmacy website is by no means the only fake pharmacy, as Kostiainen says they are emerging from time to time.
He says that websites may be operated from abroad, which also makes it difficult to track them.
« One problem is that the word pharmacy is not protected. That is, a person who is not the right pharmacy can use the word pharmacy online. This should be controlled, » says Kostiainen.
Consumer can identify the fake pharmacy, for example, by checking if its network address is found in Fimea’s legal online pharmacies on the list.
The legal online pharmacy should also be found officialwith a link to that Fimea list.
The Pharmacy Association also advises you to avoid sites with unclear contact. The scam site can also be identified by the copied logo or name.
Also, nothing should be ordered from other sites that advertise prescription drugs.
Consumers can report suspicious pharmacy sites to Fimea.
