Who will admit to buying from spammers?
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March 2nd, 2009
Have you ever fallen for a spam ad or a spam fax? I just got two healthcare insurance faxes today and I was wondering, who the heck buys this stuff from people who use up all my ink cartridges?!!
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No. Even when shopping online, I only buy from stores that I know. I think the only one I’ve bought from that’s not a real store is Amazon.
Someone has to be buying or they wouldn’t be in buiness. I just wonder who?
Interestingly, out of every 12,500,000 emails sent, only 1 gets a reply.
The study, by a team of seven computer scientists from University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD) infiltrated the Storm network, which uses hijacked home PCs to relay much of the junk email you spend your days wading through while wondering ‘who the hell responds to this stuff?’
Well. Now you know. One gullible idiot in 12,500,000 recipients. Or thereabouts.
From: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/spammers-get-1-response-to-12-500-000-emails-483381
Wow! No wonder I can never find anyone who will admit it! Maybe I should go ask on askville. I might have a better chance of finding that 1 in 12,500,000 idiot!
I haven’t. I lean the other way—I am probably too paranoid.
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