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Phishing is rapidly becoming on the largest threats to your personal, financial, and emotional wellbeing. No I am not talking about Saturday afternoon

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

s out on the boat with your grandfather, listening to stories that being with “When I was your age…”—now while these probably conjure up horrific child

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

Examples of combination products may in

ood memories of such stores, they in no way come close to the horror felt by victims of Phishing.

Phishing (fish’ing – to trick people into providing

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

their personal and financial information by pretending to be from a legitimate company, agency or organization) is a fairly new scam propagating itself

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

on the internet in many different forms. Each has the same sole purpose of convincing you to volunteer your personal and financial information and han

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

Combination pro

if over to these crooks.

One such attack was targeting PayPal (www.PayPal.com) customers, by sending out mass email (spam) stating that there had bee

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

n a security breach and the account has been suspended until you verify some information. Well this may sound reasonable, but the truth behind this wa

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

it was not from PayPal; rather a carefully orchestrated scam to capture your PayPal username and password, credit card information, debt card pin numb

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

er, mailing address, and social security number among others. What made these even scarier was the fact that the message was designed so well—using Pa

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

Pal’s logo and website layout perfectly—that even I had to take a second look. This convinced people of the legitimacy of the message and prompted ind

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

viduals—estimated in the thousands—to happily provide their information over to the scammer.

There were a few items that made this email message stand

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

Following aspects would a

out as a fraudulent spam message rather than legit communication:

• Greeting: The greeting at the top of the message was “Dear PayPal Member”. This

dd to the challenges in developing combination products:

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

hould alert you as PayPal, along with most major companies will address you by name or company associated with the account. EX: Dear Steven

• Website

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

address: The website address that was being linked to from within the message was not www.PayPal.com, but rather a very clever hoax. When you look at

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

the link in the message it appears to go to PayPal’s website, but when you click on it a different address (one of the scammer’s website) loads.

Now t

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

at I have scared you enough for one article, which this is not my intention to do so, but you must also realize the severity of this issue; there are a

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

Professional from academic institutions, pharmaceutical industries, health care indust

few simple things to keep in mind. Do not trust email messages. Let me say that one more time DO NOT TRUST EMAIL MESSAGES. If something seems fishy

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

(no pun intended), do not trust it. If it tells you to update your information, call the company up that it mentions or login to your account as you n

.

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

ormally would. In this example, you could call PayPal’s customer service number or login at PayPal’s website (visit it by opening your web browser and

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

Companies that provide selfless information through particip

manually entering http://www.PayPal.com--not through the link provided in the email). Doing so will verify that you are not falling victim to Phishing

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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