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Online crooks peddle poison

Daily Star

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August 19, 2025

FAKE pharmacy websites are peddling mis- labelled toxic substances including pesticides and animal tranquillisers.

- by STEVE RICHMOND

Cyber safety brand Avast said it has blocked more than a million attacks from around 5,000 online “stores”.

Sites posing as convincing imitations - with polished layouts, bogus customer service information and detailed product pages - have been outed as fraudulent.

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