Spam email has found another outlet to spread its doom (or more likely, annoyances) with to the general Internet public. Many spammers have noticed a buying trend caused by the swine flu epidemic. As such, unprincipled, unlicensed, and unscrupulous medicine-hawking websites have popped up in the website landscape in order to heavily promote their "Tamiflu" (swine flu medicine) wares through search engine optimization, spam email, and a multitude of devious marketing techniques bordering on outright computer hijacking.

Web partnerships that usually originate from Russia (where they're called Partnerka) are steering and flooding traffic into questionable online pharmaceutical databases by employing an assortment of adware- and spam-related hard-sell techniques. After all, why should you bother giving your "customers" the option to ignore your advertisement when you can force your promotions right down their throats via several "creative" means?

A myriad of seemingly cloned "Canadian pharmacy" homepages also exist across the worldwide web. Most of them are all in standby mode as they wait for the next panic-stricken schmuck to order their dubious products online. All the same, even though they claim to come from Canada (an approach engineered to create a thin veneer of legitimacy to the scam), the sites are typically located in cyber terrorist nests like Russia or China.

According to the ever-reliable security firm Sophos, the associates of Glavmed (one of the more famous Russian cyber syndicates) could earn as much as sixteen thousand dollars every day by simply marketing the aforementioned devious pharmacy sites. These crooked online groups have even started promoting Tamiflu beside more legitimate (yet still infamous in the spam network) products such as Ciallis and Viagra.

The Internet security firm emphatically warns users that by ordering Tamiflu via these spammed advertising sites, you'll risk exposing yourself to possibly hazardous drugs while also unwittingly handing over your account credentials to virtual villains and cyber crooks. At any rate, this debacle came about because the search engine trends for the United Kingdom have yielded massive hits for Tamiflu during the period where concerns that the worldwide production for the swine flu medicine was falling behind schedule.

The opportunistic Russian hackers of the northern winter predicted a repetition of this surge of interest in the near future, which could create another buying trend that bogus Internet pharmacies could readily exploit at the right time. This straightforward business paradigm of using spam, black-hat SEO (search engine optimization), and the like should lure panicky victims into these hacker-controlled "pharmaceutical" sites that will trick them into purchasing bogus, unbranded, and possibly counterfeit versions of the controversial drug.