Viagra is probably the best-known product to be advertised by spam emails. Everyone has received a Viagra spam email at some point… but why are the spammers still sending out millions of viagra spam emails every day?

Buying Viagra pills is something that most people wouldn't want to shout about, so it is an ideal product to buy online. The legitimate pill is named Viagra and produced by the big pharmaceutical company Pfizer. Viagra is a prescription drug in most countries, so to get Viagra pills will usually involve a visit to your doctor.

Pfizer control the production and distribution of Viagra, and it is a legitimate business. Pfizer are not the people who are sending out the Viagra spam emails advertising the product, but they do keep the price of legitimate Viagra high which then opens up a market for fake pills and other copies of Viagra.

Because of the potential of large profits the competition between the online drug retailers is high, and most will offer affiliate schemes. The affiliate schemes allow anyone to sign-up and promote the online drug retailer in return for a commission on all orders.

The spammers use these affiliate schemes to earn their money. They sign-up as an affiliate of a fake Viagra pills retailer and send out links to the website in millions of spam emails.

They only need a small percentage of people to receive the emails, and then a further small percentage of people to actually buy a product for them to make a good return.

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