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Online drug trafficking increasing

by on11 September 2008

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Buying drugs too easy


Interpol
says that buying drugs on the Internet is really easy and presents more challenges and dangers than traditional trafficking.

Speaking at the World Forum Against Drugs in Stockholm, Daniel Altmeyer from Interpol said that buying drugs on the Internet was really easy. You only need an Internet cafe, a credit card, and
it's done.

Altmeyer said that drug sales via the Internet have skyrocketed in the past few years. On the Internet users have access to Websites, forums and chatrooms, where a link that can provide them with illegal drugs is only a click away.

Krister Gaefvert, a police inspector in Sweden, told the convention that with traditional trafficking you knew your dealer, you knew where the drugs came from. Here, you don't know anything.

Prescription drugs represent about 90 percent of the illegal substances sold on the Internet, according to Gaefvert.

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Last modified on 12 September 2008
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