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Last year a scam artist sent me a ‘second offer’ on a laptop I didn’t win on EBay. His price was far cheaper than the winning bid on EBay. I fell for the scam thinking it was an offer from a genuine Ebayer giving me a second offer. I lost about $200 to the sc

According to USFDA, a combination product is one composed of any combination of a drug and device; biological product and device; drug and biological product

am. I have since become smarter on internet scams. Therefore I am offering you below some smart tips on how to beat similar scams.

1. If a scammer sent you a second chance offer directly to your email address on an item you didn’t win on EBay:

What to Do: D

; or drug, device, and biological product and fixed dose combination would include two or more combinations of drug.

Examples of combination products may in

o not accept any offer outside EBay. Ensure all your communications are through EBay’s ‘Contact Seller’ form. That way, EBay keeps track of your communications with the seller.

2. An online seller provides you with a foreign phone number to call if you have

lude drug-coated devices, drugs packaged with delivery devices in medical kits, and drugs and devices packaged separately but intended to be used together.

ny question:

What to Do: Foreign number is a red flag. Some scammers expect you may not call the number in order not to incur any long distance charges. Therefore, adopt a policy of “If I can’t reach you, I won’t do business with you”. Try and limit online

here is enormous increase in the number of combination products entering the market in the recent years. Combination products have proven advantages but fixe

transactions to your country of residency unless you are experienced in international business.

3. The Seller requests payment through either Western Union money transfer or Money Order.

What to Do: Do not make payment by Credit Card, Western Union or Money

d dose combinations are still in the process of convincing regulatory authority on their advantages over the single ingredient formulations.

Combination pro

Order to foreign sellers. PayPal is better and a more secured option, at least for now. Anyone who does business on the Internet knows that once a scammer in a foreign country receives your Western Union money transfer, or Money Order, you absolutely have no

ucts have become life saving products for the pharmaceutical companies who doesn’t have many innovative molecules in their product pipeline and have been inc

way to get your money back. Unfortunately, some of the scammers in some foreign countries work closely with local bank staff in those countries. Do no expect any help from either the foreign bank or local officials there. All a scammer needs to receive Wester

easingly used in the product life cycle management. Even the companies having product patents are trying to extend their product life cycle through the combi

n Union money transfer is the code and an ID.

4. The Seller forwards a UPS’ Cash on Delivery (COD) form to you containing instructions, where you will fill in a Western Union Money Transfer Number (MTN), and shipping information. Normally, the form will inst

nation products and maximize the revenues. But the companies involved in this practice are overlooking that they are burdening the patients both economically

uct you to fill and submit the form and it will be sent directly to UPS’ database and not to the seller. It may further explain that a UPS staff will review the form and keep the Western Union code. A UPS staff will first inspect the item from the seller and

and physically. They need to rightly judge the benefits of the combination products and they have to even look at the risks involved when combining the produ

receive it on your behalf for shipping, and finally release the Western Union code to the seller to receive his/ her payment. The form normally will look like an official UPS online form with logos, colors, trademarks. Everything will look genuine.

What to

ts. Some of the combination products were well accepted by physicians while others suffered. Companies involved in development of combination products are fi

o: According to UPS, they hardly do COD on international shipments. Therefore, this type of online UPS form is fake, and does not originate from UPS. If you receive a similar form by email do any of the following.

Cross-check The Web address:

Look for under

ding difficulty in defining their combination products and facing various challenges from selecting a combination to marketing it.

Following aspects would a

scores, hyphens, extra letters, or numbers added to the web address to mimic an official website. For instance ‘www.ups.com’ is definitely not same as ‘www.ups1.com’. Also ‘www.westernunion.com’ is not same as ‘www.westernunionn.com’ (notice the extra ‘n’

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

Which markets to tap where the combination products can do fairly well?
Which combination prod

added to ‘union’). If you are suspicious of the web address call the toll-free number listed on official website the scammer is trying to mimic to confirm if the forwarded web address belongs to them.

Find Out Where The Form Is Submitting:

Every web-based

cts are meaningful and rational?
Which therapeutic categories to select?
Which Combinations can address unmet needs of the patients?
Do combin

form you fill out submits the information either to a database or email address. You can check where the information is submitting as follows:

• Right-click on the form
• Click on ‘View Source’ (the HTLM code will appear, don’t be intimidated)

tions increase the patient compliance?
What would be the developing cost?
How to tackle the risks encountered during combination product developmen

• If you are Techie look at the form header to see where the form is submitting. If the form is submitting to one of the free email clients like hotmail, yahoo, etc, treat as suspect. A reputable company cannot use free email addresses to receive customer o

t?

As combination products don't fit into the traditional categories of drugs, medical devices, or biological products, the USFDA is in the process of devel

rders and personal information.

If the email address belongs to a private company, say ‘yoyo@blabla.com’

• Take out the ‘yoyo@’ and replace it with ‘www’.
• Type the web address, example ‘www.blabla.com’ on your address bar, and pull up the website

ping new procedures for reviewing their safety, efficacy and quality.

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

• Write down the IP address of the website.
• Go to www.dnsstuff.com and type in either the web or IP address. Dnsstuff.com is a free service that will give you detailed information on where a website is hosted.
• If the seller claims to be

y and representatives from various regulatory agencies are working out to design the regulatory requirements for manufacture and sale of combination products

from say Canada and the site is hosted in say South Africa, you have reasons to probe further.

The biggest misconception is that all Internet frauds originate from Nigeria. This misinformation has prepared the minds of a lot of people to only treat onl

.

As there is an increasing trend of the combination products companies manufacturing such products should be able to tackle the problems involved in the de

ne transactions from Nigeria as suspect. The reality is that internet scam artists are just everywhere, in every country. It’s an easy way to make money fast, so many people from various countries and backgrounds are attracted to it.

The guys who scammed my

elopment. They need to be wiser in analyzing the market trends and the regulatory requirements.

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

money were based in one of the break-away USSR republics. When I blocked my phone number and called them, one of them mistakenly picked up the phone, and greeted me in a clear soviet’s accent, then hung up the phone when I spoke. Definitely he was not African

tion in industry events and feedback to regulatory authorities would be able to face the challenges and will be successful in developing combination products

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