On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us> wrote:
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> Kinda curious if any of you guys had a theory on this...
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> Is there any profit behind spam e-mail? Or is it meant purely to annoy
> people?
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Send out 1 million emails that hold the potential for $5.00 of profit
if anybody clicks on them and orders the product. If .5% of those
targets order the product (which he didn't even have to sell really,
just formed a neatly packaged spam blaster) then he made oh..
>>> (1000000*0.005) * 5
25000.0
$25 grand?
Sounds like something I'd do every day/every hour/every minute given I
have enough bandwidth and can evade the Internet coppers long enough.
Given I was a complete ***hat.
- Shane
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