Duplicitous scoundrels. I was almost taken in by this rather good impersonation of an email from Amazon.

I haven’t ordered anything recently, so I thought I’d better see what was up. On closer inspection, however, the numbers – literally – don’t add up. If you’re going to take the trouble to mimic a well-known brand, surely you’d go the extra distance to check the arithmetic? You know, addition?

I followed the link – it diverts you through a site in Korea, eventually landing at a storefront peddling pharmeceuticals, complete with authoritative models masquerading as health professionals. It boggles the mind to think that there are people out there, who having been duped into following a link that they thought was from Amazon, end up at a shonky, car-boot drug sale and think: “Hm. Well now that I’m here, I may as well pick up some Viagra”.