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

I went limp at reading it ....

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.

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."

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...

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".

i've been stiffed?