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Free Medicine Scams

Protecting Yourself Against Medical Drug Frauds

Have you received an email, visited a website or received a phone call from a telemarketers offering to help low-income people with no health insurance obtain free prescription medications from drug companies?  And they tell you that all it takes is a fee, typically about $200, to enroll?  It is a scam.

While it is true that most pharmaceutical companies have limited programs to offer free or low-cost medications to the financially disadvantaged, there is never a fee to apply for the assistance.

The Federal Trade Commission filed deceptive claims charges against the website FreeMedicine.com. The Owner/operators of the site settled the matter earlier this year without admitting wrongdoing but agreed to pay a $500,000 judgment and agreed to provide clear disclosures about the website's services. They also added the line, "You can access these programs directly," in small print, to the bottom of its home page.

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A drug company trade group has established a website, Helpingpatients.org, that gives free information about the programs.

And the FTC has posted an alert about the free drug scam.

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Names used by scammers in the examples on this page and others often belong to real people and businesses who often have no knowledge of nor connection to the scammer's use of their name and information.  Sample scam emails and other documents are copies of the scam to help potential victims recognize and avoid it.  You should presume that any names used and presented here in a scam are either fictitious or used without their legitimate owner's permission.
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