The partnerka, the common name for partnerships of russian affiliate networks that drive most of pharmaceutical spam today, are extremely rich. A Sophos study, based on canadian pharmaceutical spam, reports that these networks can generate $4,000 per day in sales, thats $43,200,000 per year!
The largest network is called Glavmed. The company itself claims to be very anti-spam, but a little research shows that one of it’s sister company, “SpamIt” is a private group of s-mail spam networks. Some believe that these are behind many internet botnets, including conficker.
Sales records of GlavMed, show around 20 sales per day, with each sale around $200. This adds up to $4,000 per day. This 40% commissions, it gives $1,600 to GlavMed. This is only from one affiliate, and thanks to the massive amount of affiliates this results in massive revenue.
So Will you be going into Spam Pharmaceuticals anytime soon? Leave a comment!
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