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We got a fake script this week. I was actually rather impressed with it. It looked 100% legit. On the right type of paper. The words "void" were all over it when copied. There were other security features (one of those thermal "place thumb here, watch it turn colors" dealies). Yet it was fake. And the ONLY reason we suspected it was fake was because the sig was weird. We thought it was maybe just a stolen script pad. The pharmacist on duty called the number on the front of the script...it went to a cellular voicemail. Then she realized "Why does a Doctor in Langhorne have a 610 area code?" Yeah, well, he didn't. It was linked to a burner cell phone. She called the physician using the central computer search and he said it wasn't from him.
Making a crappy looking counterfeit prescription with a fake phone number isn't completely new...but this was different. This thing was legit looking. If the sig didn't look stupid and the pharmacist was calling to verify the Rx with the phony number...guess what. It probably gets filled. This thing had security features...the fake phone number was the same font and everything as the rest of the Rx...really, really professional stuff. I honestly tip my hat to them. They have an artist of a printer somewhere.
Freakin' organized crime. Lesson to all you kids out there. NEVER call the number on the prescription. Look up the physician in your computer system.
Making a crappy looking counterfeit prescription with a fake phone number isn't completely new...but this was different. This thing was legit looking. If the sig didn't look stupid and the pharmacist was calling to verify the Rx with the phony number...guess what. It probably gets filled. This thing had security features...the fake phone number was the same font and everything as the rest of the Rx...really, really professional stuff. I honestly tip my hat to them. They have an artist of a printer somewhere.
Freakin' organized crime. Lesson to all you kids out there. NEVER call the number on the prescription. Look up the physician in your computer system.