Research: U.S accounts for 72% of fraudulent pharmaceutical orders


By Dancho Danchev

Just how profitable is spam? Who’s buying the counterfeit 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 University of California at San Diego, although hundreds of thousands of people visit the fraudulent pharmaceutical scam sites, only a small percentage of them is actually purchasing the counterfeit pharmaceutical items.

In this particular case, the United States leads with 72% of total purchases from fraudulent pharmaceutical sites.

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