In this particular case, the United States leads with 72% of total purchases from fraudulent pharmaceutical sites.<\/p>\n
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According to the report, the following \u00a0countries were most commonly observed in the pre-purchasing and post-purchasing scenarios:<\/p>\n So far, Viagra remains the most popular item purchased through the pharmaceutical sites, with their operators earning a revenue every time they resell an item part of the pharmaceutical scam affiliate network<\/a>.<\/strong>\u00a0In this particular case that’s GlavMed.<\/p>\n The business model for spamming is clearly a profitable market segment within the cybercrime ecosystem. With thousands of malware-infected hosts ready to spamvertise billions of emails<\/a><\/strong>, fresh databases of harvested emails<\/a><\/strong>, next to the fact that end and corporate users continue clicking on links found in spam emails<\/a><\/strong>, spam volumes will continue to grow.<\/p>\n From another perspective, in the long term, spamming will be all about the migration from mass marketing, to targeted market propositions, using geolocated databases of freshly harvested emails addresses, combined with localized messages targeting a specific audience using their native language in an attempt to further increase the conversion — visitor to customer — rate of visitors.<\/p>\n You can find more about Dancho Danchev at his\u00a0LinkedIn Profile<\/a><\/strong>. You can also\u00a0follow him on \u00a0Twitter<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just how profitable is spam? Who’s buying the\u00a0counterfeit pharmaceutical items advertised so heavily in a huge percentage of the spam campaigns currently circulating in the wild? According to a newly released report by the\u00a0University of California at San Diego, although hundreds of thousands of people visit the fraudulent pharmaceutical scam sites, only a small percentage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":17051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3005],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[4037,10457,10441,10435,10449,10453,10447,10429,10437,10443,9677,10451,10459,4483,10461,10445,10455,10439,10431,10433],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19063,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6333\/revisions\/19063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6333"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https://www.webroot.com/blog/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/webrootblog.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/pharmaceutical_scams_01.png\" "\\"Pharmaceutical_scams_01\\"")
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