09-17-2019, 03:42 AM
I cannot speak to this specific site/vendor but I have witnessed the rise and fall of many such “open” IOPs that can be found very easily via google search.
In my own experience over the past decade or so, vendor websites that are operating on the open internet/accepting any new applicants without referral tend to attract the attention of LE attention sooner or later, and though in some instances they manage to operate for a year or more, in the end, one of three things tends to happen:
They either drastically overhaul their website’s catalog to include most or only OTC products/choose not to ship overseas anymore,
they close down entirely and open up a new, very similar website (both in design, naming format, and usually with private emails going out to their senior clientele, letting them know of the change,
or they cease to exist entirely, and what was once as respected URL/name among the community quickly becomes an obvious attempt to “hit and run” by collecting as many orders as possible before it becomes apparently that they are a fly by night operation riding on the coattails of a once respected vendor/site.
Granted, I’m a bit paranoid as my knowledge of the internet and cyber technology is not very robust, but I make it a point to avoid visiting any web URL, directly or indirectly, that was once a thriving IOP and now appears to be owned and operated by a totally differently, be it as an OTC “pharmacy” or just as a broken URL (error message). I figure somewhere someone is at least keeping automated records of how many “hits” or search queries that site gets, and from what parts of the world. The less “valuable” data they can collect and compile on any active or recently active, “open” IOPs, the better for everyone.
TL;DR If you come across a site that appears to reflect any of the criteria as above, you would probably do well to steer clear, or at least do a great deal of research first - not via google/unsecured connection as that draws even more of a connection between your IP/physical address & a potentially compromised site.
In my own experience over the past decade or so, vendor websites that are operating on the open internet/accepting any new applicants without referral tend to attract the attention of LE attention sooner or later, and though in some instances they manage to operate for a year or more, in the end, one of three things tends to happen:
They either drastically overhaul their website’s catalog to include most or only OTC products/choose not to ship overseas anymore,
they close down entirely and open up a new, very similar website (both in design, naming format, and usually with private emails going out to their senior clientele, letting them know of the change,
or they cease to exist entirely, and what was once as respected URL/name among the community quickly becomes an obvious attempt to “hit and run” by collecting as many orders as possible before it becomes apparently that they are a fly by night operation riding on the coattails of a once respected vendor/site.
Granted, I’m a bit paranoid as my knowledge of the internet and cyber technology is not very robust, but I make it a point to avoid visiting any web URL, directly or indirectly, that was once a thriving IOP and now appears to be owned and operated by a totally differently, be it as an OTC “pharmacy” or just as a broken URL (error message). I figure somewhere someone is at least keeping automated records of how many “hits” or search queries that site gets, and from what parts of the world. The less “valuable” data they can collect and compile on any active or recently active, “open” IOPs, the better for everyone.
TL;DR If you come across a site that appears to reflect any of the criteria as above, you would probably do well to steer clear, or at least do a great deal of research first - not via google/unsecured connection as that draws even more of a connection between your IP/physical address & a potentially compromised site.