At 05:29 PM 3/22/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Okay, I understand there's a big market for porn, but what >about the rest of it?
One way spammers can make money is by generating sales leads that they can then sell to others. One of the best recent examples I can think of occurred during the series of 11 or so rate cuts by the Federal Reserve. Home mortgage refi spammers were collecting contact information from recipients at a spamvertised web sites, and selling those leads to mortgage brokers. I've seen a variation on this theme just within the last week, in which an "accountant matching service" was selling leads generated in a similar fashion to bookkeeping firms and small businesses. >I'm surprised that there are enough buyers to make it >worthwhile for any spammer, especially since so many of >the web sites and email addresses get shut down after a >short time. Me, too. I think it's a numbers game. The expense associated with starting a spamming enterprise is very low, while the cost to the ISP to shut them down is somewhat higher. If that's true (and I am not certain that it is), then it seems to me that there must always be more spammers to be shut down than there are resources to shut them down with. >Maybe some spammers themselves are "marks" -- duped into >buying lists of email addresses hoping they'll get new >customers? I think that this is absolutely true. _______________________________________________ spamcon-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.spamcon.org/mailman/listinfo/spamcon-general#subscribers Subscribe, unsubscribe, etc: Use the URL above or send "help" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Contact administrator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
