Huge Savings on Hydrocodone
You know, every day it seems I get spam advertising big savings on Hydrocodone.
I’m not sure why I would want to buy discount Hydrocodone through some online pharmacy I’ve never even heard of and advertises itself through spam.
I often wonder what kinds of scams these are. Maybe they’re a mix. I really don’t feel like investigating, and I’m not trying to pass myself off as a journalist here, so let me just speculate on some of what I imagine are the possibilities.
A. Credit card number theft (and/or ID theft). You see this great offer for Hydrocodone and you just can’t pass up a good deal, so you whip out your credit card and hand over your personal details. Who knows what happens to it then? Maybe you’ll get your Hydrocodone. Maybe not.
B. Fake or poor-quality drugs. Assuming it’s not A, and you do get your drugs, who knows if they are even as advertised or even safe? What if it’s just a fake? Just stuff thrown together and made to look like a Hydrocodone pill (tablet? powder? liquid? I don’t know how this stuff comes.) but it’s nothing more than filler. No Hydrocodone at all. Or, maybe it’s cheaply-produced Hydrocodone. Who knows if the mix is right? Maybe it’s too weak or too strong, either of which could presumably pose a health risk. Plus, who knows what the purity is like. Maybe they make this stuff alongside other drugs, so who knows what might be mixed together in it.
C. A & B. Maybe they do both. Ship you fake or poor quality Hydrocodone and, then when/if you catch on, they’ve still got your credit card number and personal details, which they can then sell.
Of course, it’s possible they’re sending you the right stuff, but I would think that highly unlikely. I certainly wouldn’t risk buying drugs through some pharmacy I only heard about through being spammed.
And, in case you were wondering, as I was, what Hydrocodone is, apparently it is some kind of opiate used for reducing pain. It’s also a cough suppressant. Apparently, it’s like codeine or morphine.
And since you can die from too much morphine, I certainly wouldn’t want to be buying morphine-like drugs over the Internet.
The thing is that the reason they send out so much spam is that some people fall for it. So, there are people out there either risking their health or financial information, or both, on what are very likely fake or questionable “pharmacies” online.
At any rate, I don’t know what the truth is here. But, for me, I will continue to toss those discount Hydrocodone eMails into the spam bin.
I get that email a lot too. And, I have to agree with your ideas. Im sure these people are just trying to get credit card numbers. What’s scary are the poor people that fall for these scams. It’s sad really.
Something like 15% of people open spam.
“Users still intentionally open spam”
Four percent admit to sending the spam to someone else too!
I have lots of leftover Hydrocodone that I’ve never used from my surgery. I was wondering if I could sell it back to the pharmacy.