#430: Black Market Pharmacies And The Spam Empire Behind Them




Planet Money show

Summary: <p></p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Chances are you've received an email with a subject line like this: "The hottest method to please your beloved one." Or this: "Want to get good health for low prices?" Or emails offering "low cost med pills!"</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">You've probably wondered — who is sending these emails? Does anyone actually click on these links? What happens when they do?</p><p style="font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">On today's show — we go deep inside the world of spam to answer these questions with the help of cyber-security reporter <a href="http://krebsonsecurity.com/category/pharma-wars/">Brian Krebs</a> and researcher <a href="http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/%7Esavage/" target="_blank">Stefan Savage</a>.</p><p></p>