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Suspiciously bulgy packages

Published Tuesday 5th February 2008 12:34 GMT

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Does this mean... 

By Tim Schomer
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 12:47 GMT
Coat

That I my spam mailbox won't be getting 'Enhanced' so much in future.

Good job too 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 13:02 GMT

Pity they can't take all the pill pushers offline. I'm fed up getting emails offering Viagra and Cialis to "keep it up all night". I need to sleep for at least part of the night lol.

And all the "penis pills" emails that promise to "add 4 inches" to my wedding tackle. If I took up all the offers I receive in one week, I'd need to go to the car park to turn round :D

I find this news flaccid 

By Mr D
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 13:57 GMT
Paris Hilton

I went limp at reading it ....

Bollocks 

By James Condron
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 14:02 GMT

Does that mean i'll get my money back if i'm getting no delivery?

Excellent 

By Spleen
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 14:49 GMT
Coat

Great news that they stiffed these guys. I hope they're looking at some hard jail time.

Mine's the wide one with all the pockets for maximum fencing convenience.

About Time 

By Anonymous Coward
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 14:52 GMT
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Way back when, as these folks were getting started, they were a lot sloppier and left a fairly obvious trail. Someone I know tracked down a couple of the principals and sent all the info to the US DoJ.

I guess they just sat on the info and farted.

Or used it to order their own "Male enhancement."

Worrying? 

By Rob Aley
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 15:18 GMT
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Does anyone else find it slightly worrying that the only reason they intercepted and opened the post was that someone was sending parcels abroad on a daily basis? Running a legitimate small ecommerce business, being an avid ebay trader etc. means that the police get to snoop your mail?

Or is only illegal material sent abroad nowadays? perhaps I'm behind the times...

Online Pharmaceuticals Not So Evil 

By RW
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 18:03 GMT
Pirate

A good friend is at that stage in life where he needs Viagra or Cialis to function properly. He has found that off-brand Viagra from India is 1/7 the cost of the brand name stuff from the local pharmacy, but works just as well. As a result, his sex life is truly festive far more often than if he depended on the expensive stuff. From India, it's cheap enough to use whenever the urge strikes; bought locally, it isn't.

The situation is much like that troubling the entertainment industries: their products are so overpriced that no one sheds a tear when they are pirated.

Footnotes:

1. While there's a lot of fake, non-functional Viagra (and Cialis) on the web, there are also good versions that work as advertised.

2. The Indian courts have held that Pfizer's patent on Viagra is not valid in India, thus pharmaceutical companies there are free to make it, though trademark laws prevent them calling it "Viagra".

Does this mean 

By Robert Moore
Posted Tuesday 5th February 2008 19:59 GMT
Coat

i've been stiffed?

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