# 3434
Frankly, I’m a amazed I haven’t received an email from a `Nigerian Banker’ offering to `share’ a cargo ship full of Tamiflu with me . . . all I need to do is pay for some document stamps.
Sigh. The world is full of schemers and crooks, and the Internet provides them a low-overhead place to work.
So it comes as no surprise that online Tamiflu is rapidly becoming an attractive `pitch’ for con-artists on the web.
I’m sure that there are some legitimate sources for Tamiflu on the Internet, so I wouldn’t be quick to paint with too broad a brush. And I’ve no doubt that authorities, who worry about the indiscriminant use of the drug, are pretty quick to denounce their purchase online.
Still, it would seem that with the influx of new `dealers’ online, the odds of getting the real thing are diminishing.
This from CNN.
Fake Tamiflu 'out-spams Viagra on Web'
LONDON, England (CNN) -- The number of Internet scammers offering fake anti-swine flu drug Tamiflu has surpassed those selling counterfeit Viagra, a UK body said Friday.
Anti swine-flu drug Tamiflu is now the most spammed drug on the Internet, experts say
Since the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, was declared a global pandemic last month, there has been an increase in the number of Web sites and junk emails offering Tamiflu for sale.
More than 70,000 people have now been infected with the virus, according to the World Health Organization. The increase in the number of cases has, in turn, led to a surge in the number of cyber criminals seeking to cash in on the pandemic.
David Pruce, Director of Policy for the UK's Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) told CNN: "From looking at sites that used to sell Viagra and the amount of spam emails we're having reported to us, we think that Tamiflu is now the most spammed drug on the Internet.
"Since the outbreak, every Web site that used to sell Viagra is now selling Tamiflu. We are pretty sure that the same people are making the Tamiflu as are making the Viagra."
