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Save Money Online Without Killing Yourself. Fake pharmacy websites selling fake medicines. So What! Michele Neylon

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Save Money OnlineWithout Killing Yourself.

Fake pharmacy websites selling fake medicines. So What!

Michele Neylon

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Who am I?

Michele Neylon

- Founder / CEO Blacknight

- http://mneylon.tel

- @mneylon

- http://michele.me/blog

- http://www.blacknight.co

- On most other social networks ..

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Welcome to the Information Super-highway

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Feeling Sick?The internet has everything right?

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Go Online – Great Bargain

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Prescription Drugs Bargain Price?

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The Facts…

97% of websites offering to sell medicines are illegitimate

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Online Pharmacies in the EU

Only some Member States allow online sales of OTC and prescription-only medicines

Others allow online sales of OTCs only, while the majority still prohibit both

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Happy Pills!!!

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The Facts…

(Rx) medicines sold online that hide their physical address are

counterfeit (WHO)

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Who just sold you those drugs?

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Would you give money to a fake doctor?

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The Facts…

23% of adult internet customers surveyed have bought a

prescription medicine online

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Basically killing yourself

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But how is this happening?

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The Facts…

At any one time there are over 30,000 fake pharmacy websites

accessible by the European population

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Isn’t anyone doing anything?

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The Facts…

Seizures of counterfeit medicines increased by 200% at express

consignment and mail facilities by 84% since 2007

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But it’s a global business run by skilled criminals

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The sites look professional….

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The Facts…• Fake website by the EAASM ran for 9 weeks

in Germany• More than 360,000 hits• 3rd most popular online pharmacy• Conservative estimates of orders, €35m sales• Estimated European sales are €1-3bn rising to

€10bn by 2020

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Lets have a hand count?

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Action is needed

A new initiative to address the problem of illegal online pharmacies

Inclusive, collaborative, determined

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Buyers

Raise public awareness &

education

Policy & Legislation

External relations with

EU Institutions,

MEPs, Trade & Professional

bodies

Internet StakeholdersVoluntary & collaborative

actions to disrupt criminal

activity

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Enter the Internet Stakeholders

• Counterfeiters do not operate door-to-door

• You probably don’t have a community counterfeiter

• They need you to find them - online

• They need you to pay them - online

• They need you to specify a postal address

• So that they can have your fake medicines delivered to you

WE CAN INTERRUPT THIS

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You are not faceless

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The Facts…

Over 27 million falsified medicines were seized at EU

borders in 2011

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You don’t get better with fake drugs!

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No Prescription Required?

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Thank You …