On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 05:32:58PM -0400, Sam Densler wrote: > Ben, > It makes sense when there is a legitimate product offered for sale in > the spam email but what about the emails that just have a link with no > text, or a bunch of nonsense, or I have even seen some with no link at > all. Just seems like the intent is to piss people off but what is the > financial gain?
Oh - yeah, I've seen those as well. I _think_ - not sure, but I suspect - that they're accidental mailings, kinda like "Dear Rich Bastard". http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/bastard.asp The thing to remember here is that what the spammers (the people that do the actual mailings, not the advertisers) get paid for isn't in the visible part of the email - it's the effort to structure the headers so that the email appears legitimate and slips through the filters. Most of that is going to happen before any content is added (thus the empty emails), or where they just type in some nonsense so there will be _some_ kind of an email body. Like I said, though, that's just an informed guess. Ben -- OKOPNIK CONSULTING Custom Computing Solutions For Your Business Expert-led Training | Dynamic, vital websites | Custom programming 443-250-7895 http://okopnik.com http://twitter.com/okopnik _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
