If the slew of emails I get in my inbox are true, then even though I’m a women, I probably could have grown my own penis if I had taken up the spammer’s myriad offers to make it “bigger and stronger”.
No woman would ever need to complain to her girlfriends over a glass of wine about a disappointing night , when spammers are promising drugs that would enable the lucky stud to “give her the most powerful orgasm of her life!” (That is a direct quote – the same email also advised, “Attack Your Lady Harder” which is seems a little at odds with the promised orgasm, but still).
However Pfizer and Microsoft Corps have come together and decided to do something to save me from the spammers.
On Thursday, they announced that they had filed a total of 17 lawsuits against individuals associated with the sale and distribution of Viagra. By filing the lawsuits they now can subpoena the internet service providers to track down the defendants and hopefully do something to halt some of the deluge of spam.
The two companies said that 1 in 4 spam emails offer Viagra, which Pfizer manufacture. Often consumers are duped into thinking they are from genuine Pfizer suppliers, only to end up with counterfeit medication that is more likely to result in a heart attack than an earth-shattering night of pleasure.
Honestly, 17 lawsuits are unlikely to make much of a difference to the amount of spam flying about the internet, or indeed to the numbers of consumers buying illegal medication on the web, but it is the first time that a pharmaceutical company has teamed up with a nanotechnology firm to at least try. For Pfizer, even making a marginal difference to the amount of counterfeiting of Viagra can net them millions of dollars worth of lost revenue.
I still think I will continue to get lots of offers to make my imaginary willy bigger and stronger, but I shall take comfort in the fact that Pfizer and Microsoft are on my side. Sort of.