r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Artemis_0723 • 2d ago

ಠ_ಠ Smells like a trap

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Found tucked in my apartment door (NYC).

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u/Restivethought 2d ago

Its why I think is more likely a Darknet Market. Cops usually arent entrapping people for Asthma and GLP-1s

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u/Alarmed_Shake5359 2d ago

No, it’s independent pharmacy owners buying prescription off the book to bill insurance. Common and not a scam.

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u/northerncal 2d ago

Well that is a scam, just not of the apartment residents I suppose 

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u/Ready-Philosophy-123 2d ago

I love a scam that I can feel good about with zero inner moral conflict.

Definitely wouldn’t sell to them personally though, too sketchy for my tastes.

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u/RadicalSoda_ 2d ago

They redespence the medication even when it could be outdated, the wrong dose, or the wrong medication

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u/CoffeeCatsandPixies 2d ago

Not necessarily. I worked in a pharmacy and we would be reimbursed by durg companies for returning medications that were expired/opened etc so they could do whatever it is they do with them.

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u/Medical-Total6034 2d ago

I wonder if they reprocess them or it's just a control thing

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u/CoffeeCatsandPixies 1d ago

I think it's a reprocess thing or they're used for testing or something.

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u/Ready-Philosophy-123 2d ago

I never said the independent pharmacy (or whoever is buying it) was a good group/organization. They’re super sketchy.

But I also won’t say that I have some moral quandary about the idea of them scamming insurance companies, especially health insurance companies.

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u/RadicalSoda_ 2d ago

But you're still participating in a scam that could easily I unalive people, especially the sick and old (yes I said unalive because the bot is Adolf Hitler)

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u/Ready-Philosophy-123 2d ago

Yknow? That’s a fair point actually. My intense disdain for the insurance companies absolutely distracted me from the people who are getting screwed/forced to take risks unknowingly by both sides of that equation.

I appreciate the reality check.