After cleaning out the same Trojan Horse e-mailer from my wife’s computer for the eleventy bazillionth time, I have to ask a question.
The TH mailer SPAMs her webmail adress book with an ad for a Canadian mail order pharmacy, hawking Viagra and Cialis. Does anyone know if they send the real stuff, or a phoney look alike?
No, I do not need an answer fast, nor am I considering an order. Just wondering how much of a scam this is…
There’s probably a very good chance you’ll get nothing. Either they simply have some way of avoiding charge-backs (or they’ll just plain steal your CC information), or they’re betting that you (or some percentage of their “customers”) simply won’t want to call their credit card companies to tell them their quasi-legal erection pills didn’t arrive.
We discussed this about a month ago, without any real conclusion. I’ve ordered from India before without any complaints (except for shipping time, of course), but YMMV.
I imagine if you’re trying to get your hands on brand-name Viagra and it’s not at least $15/pill, it’s probably fake. Even wholesale price on it is ridiculous. But it is probably cheap enough to synthesize that a generic sildenafil tablet is close enough to legit. Ordering from a company who stocks a generic that’s made by a US-approved generic manufacturer probably also helps.
But it might work anyway – placebo effect, y’know.
Oh, sorry, when I said “fake,” I meant “possibly the same active ingredient, but not authentic Pfizer-made Viagra”. That was probably unclear.
Out of curiosity (since I am Canadian), what is the name of the pharmacy? And no, I don’t need the answer fast either! 
I’ll look when I get home and get back with you.
When I said fake, I meant placebo…
I don’t see why they couldn’t contain active ingredient. Again, my experience may differ, but the Viagra flush isn’t anything I could attribute to placebo. All of the generic Viagra I’ve bought on the internet was made by Cipla, who makes legitimate, FDA-approved versions of other generic drugs as well.
Again, I hate to sound like a shill, but I’ve had good luck with them, and I think there are steps one can take to increase success (buy from reputable websites, not gas stations, stay aware of “too good to be true”, read reviews, etc.)
I don’t, either, but it occurs to me that if the item contained no active ingredient at all, the purchaser might not be so quick to complain as other purchases that turned out to be fake.
The name of the place is “Canadian Neighbor Pharmacy”.
All of the spam mails send URLs that seem to be almost randomly generated, but redirect to the same address when you follow them. I won’t re-post it, but I assume anyone can find it with a little Google-fu.