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Let's Cook! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I've been saying for years that

A) It'd be cool if

And

B) Someone eventually will

Make/smuggle black market medicine (not drugs medicine, ykwim) and sell it both through the good ol sneakernet or even onion sites like WHM or SR.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Planet Money podcast did a bit where they followed up with people who fell for buying cheap pharmaceuticals from spam emails.

The assumption was that people paid the too good to be true prices, and then never got anything in the mail.

The weird twist was that everyone interviewed was really satisfied with the product they received.

Now, all disclaimers certainly apply: don't trust a spammer with your life, there's nothing to stop imitator scammers from joining the legitimate?! spammers, and people's satisfaction is a poor measure of drug safety and efficacy.

But it does seem like a sign that someone is doing some of this already.

[–] marcos 5 points 1 day ago

"A police operation today invaded an illegal drugs lag, confiscating 100kg of illegal cough syrup and enough methanphetamine reagents for producing other 300kg"