Changes: WikiPharmacy

Latest revision as of 04:11, 28 January 2021

Description[]

WikiPharmacy is another EvaPharmacy property. Control of this organization has been attributed to the spammer using the pseudonym Alex Polyakov. The same group of scam pharmacy brands is referred to as "Eva Meds" by Knujon and LegitScript, and as "Yambo Financials" by Spamhaus.

This puts it into the same family as

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False Pretenses[]

Like other Eva Pharmacy sites, just about every claim made on this brand's site is a lie.

Fake Locations[]

Addresses listed for their headquarters and branches are real addresses, but no such company exists at those premises.

101 California St, San Francisci, CA 94111
4651 Salisbury Road, Jacksonville, FL 32356, USA
1200 Smith Street, Houston, TX 77002, USA (See the tenancy listing

Fake Manufacturing License[]

The pharmacy has no real location and no real pharmacists. But like other Eva Pharmacy sites, they have forged an imaginary license for their pharmacy.

Fake FDA Seal[]

The Food and Drug Administration seal does not link to the FDA but is served on the same fake host.

Registrar Corp states on their web site:

Registrar Corp assists businesses with U.S. FDA compliance. Certificates of Registration issued by Registrar Corp provide confirmation to industry that you are fulfilling U.S. FDA registration requirements. U.S. FDA does not issue or recognize Certificates of Registration. Registrar Corp is not affiliated with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The signatory is Russell K. Statman -

Russell K. Statman, Esq., is a founder and Executive Director of FDA Registrar Corp., a firm providing registration, compliance assistance and U.S. Agent Services for the food and beverage, cosmetics and medical device industries. Mr. Statman is an attorney-at-law representing firms in FDA-regulated industries for the past eighteen years. Contact the author at: statman@fdaregistrar.com

It is dated October 18, 2004.

"This is a very old Certificate of Registration issued by Registrar Corp back in 2004. It would not still be valid as they are only issued for the current year." - Senior Regulatory Specialist, Client Services, Registrar Corp, 59 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000, Australia.

Fake Better Business Bureau Seal[]

At the bottom of each page of the site, there is a seal claiming the site is accredited by the Better Business Bureau. Clicking on a real BBB seal should link to a company's ratings page on BBB's website. But WikiPharmacy links to a page on their own website with a forged BBB rating. They have even got the chutzpah to have created a fake complaint and resolved it satisfactorily.

Real BBB page for WikiPharmacy on BBB.org	Fake BBB page hosted on their own domain

Notice that BBB hasn't yet even heard of them (May 2011)

Hijacked servers[]

Pre 2012

When you loaded a WikiPharmacy site, you found that the web site and the images used were being loaded from a range of different IP addresses. For example, take tabletspillsrx.net, which was operational in May 2011.

The web page itself loaded from 5 IPs
- tabletspillsrx.net has address 91.200.240.251
- tabletspillsrx.net has address 91.200.240.252
- tabletspillsrx.net has address 200.91.115.75
- tabletspillsrx.net has address 200.122.165.18
- tabletspillsrx.net has address 213.55.114.132
later in the day, these 5 IPs
- tabletspillsrx.net has address 91.200.240.251
- tabletspillsrx.net has address 91.200.240.252
- tabletspillsrx.net has address 201.7.103.58
- tabletspillsrx.net has address 202.164.39.218
- tabletspillsrx.net has address 213.55.114.132

Uses a network of compromised machines to serve up the images, eg

These IP addresses were refreshed on a fast-flux basis every 10 minutes

Each of these IP addresses represented a site that had been hijacked, and taken over to provide services to these criminals, without the knowledge of the owners. The method used to infiltrate and take over these sites has been documented, together with cleaning instructions. See Hijacked host.

How to Report this Spam[]

The Complainterator is configured to report this spam to the registrars. It performs a "whois" lookup on the domain names used by the name servers that resolve access to the web site. It discovers the registrars that are sponsoring the access to the web site. It prepares a complaint to the sponsoring registrars.

Removal instructions

web site domains
- the registrar needs to set the status of the domain to

clientHold
clientUpdateProhibited
clientDeleteProhibited
clientTransferProhibited

name server domains
- the registrar needs to set the status of each of the name server domains to

clientHold
clientUpdateProhibited
clientDeleteProhibited
clientTransferProhibited

In addition, to remove them as name servers, the subdomain address records (eg for ns1 and ns2) need to be changed to a non-routable address, such as 0.0.0.0 or a blackhole address within their own address space.

Sponsor Organization[]

Spamming Affiliates[]

EvaPharmacy is the criminal sponsor organization behind this type of site.

Registrars[]

WikiPharmacy domain name	Registrar sponsoring the domain
theherbseshop.eu	1 API GmbH
	Suspended by registrar:
thewikipharmacy.com	TODAYNIC.COM, INC. suspended
fastmedicalprogram.com	NETLYNX, INC. suspended
wiki-pharmacy.org	TODAYNIC.COM,INC. suspended
wiki-pharmacy.net	BIZCN.COM, INC. suspended
herbalpillsgroup.com	NETEARTH ONE, INC. DBA NETEARTH suspended
tabletspillsrx.net	ELB GROUP, INC. suspended
tabletprecisionpharmacyrx.net	ELB GROUP, INC. suspended
sleepingpillspharmacy.com	TRUNKOZ TECHNOLOGIES PVT LTD. suspended
pharmacyhealthpills.net	NETEARTH ONE, INC. DBA NETEARTH suspended
drugtorerxnewslettertablets.net	NETEARTH ONE, INC. DBA NETEARTH suspended
wikipharmacy.biz	CENTER OF UKRAINIAN INTERNET NAMES DBA UKRNAMES suspended
wikipharmacy.net	CENTER OF UKRAINIAN INTERNET NAMES DBA UKRNAMES suspended

Related spam operations[]

See: Category:Yambo family

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-|WikiPharmacy is another [[Bulker.biz]] property. Control of this organization has been attributed to the spammer using the pseudonym [[Alex Polyakov]]. The same group of scam pharmacy brands is referred to as "Eva Meds" by [http://knujon.com Knujon] and [http://legitscript.com LegitScript], and as "Yambo Financials" by [http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/listing.lasso?file=880 Spamhaus].
+|WikiPharmacy is another [[EvaPharmacy]] property. Control of this organization has been attributed to the spammer using the pseudonym [[Alex Polyakov]]. The same group of scam pharmacy brands is referred to as "Eva Meds" by [http://knujon.com Knujon] and [http://legitscript.com LegitScript], and as "Yambo Financials" by [http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/listing.lasso?file=880 Spamhaus].
 This puts it into the same family as
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 ==False Pretenses==
-Like other Bulker.biz sites, just about every claim made on this brand's site is a lie.
+Like other Eva Pharmacy sites, just about every claim made on this brand's site is a lie.
-===Fake claim to be secure===
- What is your security & privacy policy?
- We are committed to protecting your privacy with the highest possible level of security.
- All of your personal information, including credit card number, name, and address is
- encrypted, so that it cannot be read as it is being transmitted from your computer to
- our server. We use the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol which enables end-to-end
- data protection.
-In fact, if you visit their Contact Us page, you see a request for you to provide your credit card on a page which has no encryption. And yet, the page contains this false statement:
- The credit card number is required to identify your order correctly in our certified
- secure network. Please note that all the information is securely transferred through
--bit secure SSL connection, which provides high level of security. Any information
- provided by our customers is never shared, sold, or released to any third party.
 ===Fake Locations===
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 The pharmacy has no real location and no real pharmacists. But like other
-Bulker.biz pharmacies, they have forged an imaginary license for their pharmacy.
+Eva Pharmacy sites, they have forged an imaginary license for their pharmacy.
 [[Image:WikiPharmacy_license.jpg|600px]]
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 [[Image:WikiPharmacy_FDA.jpg|300px|Click to enlarge]]
-[https://www.registrarcorp.com/images/food-labels.gif The actual genuine logo] for Registrar Corp (with four red stars instead of the three shown above) can be compared with the version used in the certificate
 Registrar Corp states [http://www.registrarcorp.com/fda-food/labeling/regulations.jsp?lang=en on their web site]:
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 Russell K. Statman, Esq., is a founder and Executive Director of FDA Registrar Corp., a firm providing registration, compliance assistance and U.S. Agent Services for the food and beverage, cosmetics and medical device industries.  Mr. Statman is an attorney-at-law representing firms in FDA-regulated industries for the past eighteen years. Contact the author at: <nowiki>statman@fdaregistrar.com</nowiki>
+It is dated October 18, 2004.
+"This is a very old Certificate of Registration issued by Registrar Corp back in 2004.  It would not still be valid as they are only issued for the current year." - Senior Regulatory Specialist, Client Services, Registrar Corp, 59 Flinders St, Adelaide 5000, Australia.
 ===Fake Better Business Bureau Seal===
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 ==Sponsor Organization==
 ===Spamming Affiliates===
-[[Bulker.biz]] is the [[:Category:Spam Sponsoring Companies| criminal sponsor organization]] behind this type of site.
+[[EvaPharmacy]] is the [[:Category:Spam Sponsoring Companies| criminal sponsor organization]] behind this type of site.
 ===Registrars===
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 ==Further Reading==
 [http://www.legitscript.com/download/Rogues-and-Registrars-Report.pdf LegitScript report, May 2010]
 [[Category:Well-known Spam]]
 [[Category:Bulkerbiz Spam]]