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[Peter Russell]

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I think your post should be deleted from the archiveds, for tempting us
all over to the dark side. :)

Just imagine if Jules turned his talents? Work 2 years and retire? Gotta
be easier than stopping spam for decades?



Matt Kettler wrote:
> Peter Russell wrote:
>
>> Take a bit of effort to do this?
>
>
> Not really, it's scriptable.
>
>> So i guess people do spend money on
>> gambling and viagra after see this sp[am? or the spammers would bother?
>
>
> Yes, although the effort is so low it only takes 1 buyer to make it
> worth posting a few hundred thousand ads.
>
> And never underestimate the number of stupid people out there who will
> believe anything they read. After all, look at how successful email
> viruses are. Even badly written ones manage to get enough people to
> click the attachment that they propagate.
>
>> Does anyone have any stats on how successful spam is a money making tool?
>>
> Stats? no. However, there are plenty of interviews in the press with
> various spammers who are making quite a good profit. Most of these
> outfits are selling sugar pills in place of real Viagra, so the price
> paid by the customer is almost pure profit.
>
> The big fish like Alan Ralsky turn in quite a significant profit each
> year. Eddy Marin once claimed a quarter with $750,000 in revenue 80%
> being profit (that would scale to 2.4 million in profit per year).
>
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