Pick your poison: Pricing and inventories at unlicensed online pharmacies

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 621-638

  Leontiadis, Nektarios ^a   Moore, Tyler ^b   Christin, Nicolas ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Online crime; Pharmacies; Search engine poisoning; Web frauds

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING ANALYSIS; INVENTORY AND PRICING; ON-LINE MARKETPLACES; ONLINE PHARMACIES; PHARMACIES; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; RANDOM SAMPLE; WEB FRAUDS;

ECONOMICS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; FACINGS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; SALES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 84879759416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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