Rogue Online Pharmacies

Online Pharmacy owners those who have not been working within moral and governmental regulations are in for the ride of their lives. In precedent months, many of these so called "rogue pharmacies" have either willingly shut down or been closed by the powers that be. However, the major illegitimate players have been unable to cover up their tracks, and some have been complete irresponsible.

Back in 2002, it was easy and comforting to begin a personal affiliate site for one of the few genuine online pharmacies around. However, from 2003 on it became clear that some business-savvy people thinking it was fine to sell counterfeit prescription medications, or even go as far as charging a heavy "doctor's fee" for processing an online consultation when no doctors were involved!

Since those days began, many restrictions of trade have been put into effect over the whole period of online pharmacy industry. These restrictions are, so far, limited mainly to advertising. But, with no quality advertising, how can one's business obtain customers? For example, search engine giant Google made a policy change which banned online pharmacy advertisers from using its AdWords pay-per-click ad service; that is, if not they had a SquareTrade online pharmacy license. I won't even get into the troubles with that system.

In the precedent months, those who watches the health news sector has read all the stories of online pharmacy owners going to prison for 4 years on average and being necessary to forfeit the majority of their assets such as Porsche sports cars and penthouses. After all, when you get away charge large fees for services you don't offer, the cash should just roll in.

Latest news reports talk of the software company Microsoft and Pfizer teaming up to shut down a entire network or ring of unlawful online pharmacies. Out of a total of 17 law suits, named operations include "CanadaPharmacy," "E-Pharmacy Direct," "DiscountRx," "VirtualRx", and "EzyDrugStore."

The logic behind this latest group of law suits stands on the platform of elimination the online pharmacy industry of sellers of counterfeit drugs. These cases involve counterfeit versions of Pfizer's flagship medication, Viagra, a secure solution to the embarrassing and traumatic problem of erectile dysfunction. If this is about drugs, you ask for, then why is Microsoft involved? Well, as the owner of the Hotmail free email service used by many people, the company seems to have vowed to do all it can to kill off the companies such as those above, who send out hundreds of lakh of millions of emails to Hotmail customers, watchfully crafted to get past current spam filters.