Apr 15, 2014
Daniel, a thick-accented "supervisor" from "Northern Lights Pharmacy," asking if I wanted to refill a medication I had ordered last month. This call follows several calls from burn phones two weeks ago, from well-known scam artists identifying themselves as DEA agentas and threatening to raid my house and arrest me for "drug trafficking" if I didn't pay a "fine" to their "ops team" in the Dominican Republic. (You can learn all abou the DEA scam by googling "DEA phone extortion scam.") Naturally, any call from a thick-accented stranger inquiring about online medication orders would arouse my suspicion, so I googled Daniel's number (213-217-9954) and landed here. The number also appears to be that of a burn phone, as it does not accept incoming calls.
My suspicion is that Danial and the DEA scammers are all part of one group of Dominican--based extortionists and con men who somehow got my personal information from Northern Lights (either by hacking into their severs or through collusion). I tend to believe that Northern Lights is not directly involved in this, as they have promptly fulfilled past medication orders of mine with no problems, i.e., why would Northern Lights want to scare their own pharmacy customers away by scamming them on the back end of the sale? I'm going to the NL web site, call them directly and see if this Danial person is actually a member of their organization. I'm betting the answer will be no.