All of those adds that filled up your inbox last month that touted “cheap Viagra and Cialis from safe Canadian drugstores” or “touted safe swine flu antidotes from Canada,” accounted for 70% of the trash that you had to delete. A report recently released by McAfee explains that spammers use “Canadian” in there fake emails because user’s are more likely to trust a Canadian pharmacy.

Canada is the largest victim of brand identity theft in the world. Spam that advertises websites for“Canadian pharmaceuticals” accounts for more than 70 percent of global spam volume. “Online pharmaceuticals” is to “Canadian pharmaceuticals” as Jell-O is to gelatin. With so many news stories of elderly people purchasing medications from Canada, there is so much pressure to offer cheaper drugs that an entire shadow industry attempts to cash in.

Just because you see a maple leaf, doesn’t mean its safe. Don’t ever trust a pharmacy you get spam from even if they claim to be Canadian. Ordering from online Canadian pharmacies can be safe and save you money if you do your homework and do it the right way. Let us help you make a wise decision.

If there is one online truth you can take to the bank, its that spammers will find a way to manipulate any and all possible outlets to reach consumers. We have all received the spam emails from rogue pharmacies, touting cheap drugs without a prescription. Not even Google and MSN can stop them from exploiting there advertising systems, and now they have moved on to YouTube.

YouTube has recently received a flood of new videos publicizing online pharmacy web sites that allow customers to purchase drugs online without a prescription. The videos are cheaply made and get straight to the point. According to the Huffington Post, in one video

a camera slowly pans around a sealed bottle of the stimulant Adderall before zeroing in on a cascade of pills poured on top of a laptop computer. “Buy Adderall online now from our new online store: click the link in the top right hand corner to buy now,” says a pop-up box at the screen’s base. At one point last month the clip had pulled in nearly 5,000 viewings.

A new study done over the past 4 months by the students at Columbia University’s Stabile Center for Investigative found around 170 videos advertising no prescription sell of controlled substances which had received 65,000 hits. They even went to one of the sites advertised and bought generic Prozac without a prescription.

These types of rogue pharmacies are looking to take advantage of consumers, and you need to look out for yourself. Never purchase drugs online from an un-reputable, unreliable, or unknown source, especially if they don’t require an original doctors prescription. Save money safely by ordering from verified online Canadian pharmacies. Join Canadian Online Pharmacies today.

The Ottawa Citizen recently published an article headlined, “Online pharma spammers capitalize on Canada’s health-care reputation” — pointing out how cyber-criminals, mostly based in Russia, are damaging Canada’s good name by spamming inboxes with sales pitches from so-called “Canadian pharmacies.”

John Praed, a Virginia lawyer investigating online pharmacies, told the newspaper:

Almost every illegal pharmacy that’s out there invokes Canada. This will taint Canada.

Approximately 200 legitimate online pharmacies are based in Canada and licensed by their provincial governments to sell medications internationally. These include the pharmacies in the Canadian Online Pharmacies database.

Unfortunately, the constant flood of spam e-mails is confusing U.S. consumers — and making them afraid of all Canadian pharmacies.

Tim Smith of the Canadian International Pharmacy Association told the Citizen:

It’s our reputation, our very strong reputation that stands to be affected by the rogue operators. We’re committed to safety, and we don’t want anybody around that can tarnish our reputation by some underhanded practice.

Much of the damage can be traced to a single criminal organization in Russia that calls itself “Canadian Pharmacy.” The group, which operates thousands of sites, sends as many as 60 billion spam e-mails per day.

According to Pat Peterson, a security researcher for Cisco Systems:

There’s no doctors, no prescriptions, no consultations, no buildings, but they will ship you medications.

Some rogue pharmacies add metal shavings and other contaminants to the drugs they send out. In 2007, one Canadian woman was killed by pills laced with poisonous metals. The woman’s payments were traced to a Russian bank — but that’s where the investigation stalled.

Be safe in ordering Canadian drugs. Join Canadian Online Pharmacies today.

It’s no secret that legitimate Canadian pharmacies despise so-called “Canadian pharmacy” spam — those illegal missives you receive in your inbox promising you can buy drugs like Viagra with no prescription.

The reality is that these so-called Canadian pharmacies aren’t Canadian at all (and in many cases aren’t pharmacies at all). They are criminal operations based in places like Russia or various Third World countries. They are scam artists — and they give legal, licensed Canadian pharmacies a bad name.

Fortunately, these spammers are increasingly being forced to use words other than “Canadian pharmacy” in their e-mails. The reason is simple: people are wising up to the scam.

According to BitDefender, which offers weekly reports on e-mail spam trends:

It seems like medicine spammers took a more discrete approach this week, advertising their products without using the keywords “Canadian Pharmacy.” The Canadian Pharmacy spammers take various approaches such as using various mail subjects to make the message look as if they had been sent by friends to make users open the messages.

The words appearing most in spam e-mails, according to BitDefender, include “click,” “email,” “news,” “please,” and “privacy.”

Every week, BitDefender analyzes about seven million spam messages collected through a worldwide network of “honey pots.” A honey pot is an e-mail address that is only used to collect spam. The large number of analyzed messages and the global distribution of honey pots ensure reliable results, the company says.

You’ll see below two logos for similar organizations, the first for CIDA — the Canadian International Drug Association — and the second for CIPA, the Canadian International Pharmacy Association.

As you look across online pharmacy sites, you will find that some carry the seal of CIDA, whereas others carry the seal of CIPA.

What’s the difference between the two?

CIPA is a respected online-pharmacy verification authority comprised of pharmacies licensed by the Canadian government.

CIDA, on the other hand, doesn’t exist. There’s no such organization.

The fake CIPA seal is just one of the many ruses employed by rogue online pharmacies, as identified in this article by Spam Trackers.

Rogue pharmacy sites claim to be based in Canada — but are typically located in Russia and other countries known for online organized crime.

Don’t get scammed. To make sure the Canadian pharmacy site you’re visiting is legit, take the following precautions:

• Confirm the pharmacy has a valid license. Every Canadian online pharmacy should have a license in its home province. Locate the pharmacy’s license number on its Web site and the name of the regulatory body that granted the license. Contact the body to confirm the license’s authenticity.
• Look for the CIPA or PharmacyChecker.com seal — and verify they’re legit. To confirm that the pharmacy has been approved by one of these verification authorities, go to each organization’s Web site and conduct a search of approved pharmacies.
• Never pick a pharmacy based on a spam solicitation. Legitimate online pharmacies respect your privacy. They don’t spam you.

Or, rather than doing all of this legwork yourself, you can simply join Canadian Online Pharmacies, where we ensure that all of our member pharmacies are licensed and in good standing with the Canadian government. Join us today!