The Economics Of Spamming

Shardleton writes "What kind of an idiot would buy penis-enlargement pills? Even more idiotic, who would buy them from a spammer? Apparently LOTS of people, according to this article at Wired. The operators of a spamvertised order site left their customer logs exposed. There were 6,000 orders for the pills since July 4. Sayeth Wired: "Do the math and you begin to understand why spammers are willing to put up with the wrath of spam recipients, Internet service providers and federal regulators.""

Comments

Re:And they don't even have to sell anything

[JohnGrahamCumming]

And here's the key to a coherent FP (for which I think I should win some sort of prize... hey Slashdot editors how about a free T-shirt?).

I subscribe to Slashdot so I get to see the stories before you can reply to them. If there's a story I have something worthwhile commenting on I fully prepare my reply in Emacs' *scratch* buffer and then copy and paste it in when I can reply.

John.

Re:You! Outta the Gene Pool!

[molo]

Is that Mike Gargano from New City, NY?

-molo

Re:Public Disgrace!!

[Flabby Boohoo]

Excellent information, here is a list of the most notorious spammers.

Add this guy.

Re:And they don't even have to sell anything

[Some Dumbass...]

even more amazing is a coherent FP

Why was this modded funny rather than interesting? It's a good point. It's hard to type up something that's actually coherent (much less smart) so quickly. I guess that none of the "First Post!" whores are subscribers.

It's the SUBSCRIPTIONS, stupid!

[MarcQuadra]

A wonderful side-effect of subscriptions, you can write your FP in response to a story still to be released for discussion and 'pounce' on it when it goes live.

Don't let the subject set you off, it's just a phrase.