Written by Stuart Stevens | Wednesday, 03 October 2007
If you are buying fake impotence medication on the internet or in response to spam emails you may like to know that you could be not only funding criminal organisations but even terrorist organisations such as Al Qaeda and Hezbollah!

Many terrorist groups used to invest heavily in the African diamond trade to finance their operations but recent clampdowns on “blood diamonds” has meant that some of these terrorist organisations have moved into the illegal pharmaceutical trade with erectile dysfunction drugs being very popular as they are the easiest to sell on the black market and the internet.
The reports coming in say that Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Ivory Coast have a large number of manufacturing plants for fake Viagra, Cialis and Levitra. The money that is made from these factories can go directly into funding terrorism organisations. A report done by University Researchers in Canada recently saw that five percent of all of the credit card processing facilities that they came across in response to spam e-mail came from the Democratic Republic of Congo where law enforcement is non existent in much of the country. The financial scale of these fake erectile dysfunction businesses is far bigger then most government departments in many African Countries and therefore the authorities tend to turn a blind eye to fake Viagra, Cialis and Levitra production in their nations.
Even if an illegal web site that offers to sell you very cheap drugs without a prescription appears to be operating from the United Kingdom the chances are that it is not. A web site that sells erectile dysfunction drugs without a prescription is breaking the law in the United Kingdom and therefore is very unlikely to be operating in the UK.
If you give your credit card details to a company in the Republic of Congo, the Ivory Coast or Nigeria the chances are that you could end up getting charged much more than you originally bargained for. You can also end up with no drugs whatsoever and even if they do send you something the chances are that it will be a dud, substandard or just plain dangerous.