Newsfront
May, 2012
Viagra VillainsA team of computer scientists at the University of California investigated the origins of those ubiquitous e-mails that promise $3 Viagra without a prescription. The researchers, who specialize in "spamalytics," traced 365 million links found in spam e-mails to 69,000 sites operated by 45 companies, most of them in Russia. They also made 56 random purchases. Although 91 percent of the orders were filled, it was impossible to tell what was in the pills, nearly all of wh...