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Spammer Profile: Scott Richter
prostoalex writes "Westword.com published an article on Scott Richter, the owner of what is supposedly the nation's fastest-growing online marketing company, which mostly specialized in sending out those unsolicited electronic mail messages. Richter is the guy currently being sued by New York Attorney General and Microsoft Corporation for sending out nearly 9000 e-mails only to Hotmail accounts."
WTF is HIS email address???
Voice your support for the Death Penalty for spamers!
But this is slashdot. A slashdoter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber!
By any chance, does that article mention anything that he's fatally allergic to, say, something that could be purchased in bulk from a supermarket?
Just wondering.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
He's a spammer! Burn him!
Oh wait, he's spamming Microsoft Hotmail accounts? Oh hey man welcome back to the community!
...that you'll die sooner or later, and then you won't get any more spam.
Unless of course there's life after death, in which case you'll probably get spamned for all eternity.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Woohoo! Go Microsoft!
I hope you win this one.
chown -R us.
Idiots are worth $2 apiece? :)
C'mon, man. Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel.
There needs to be a new moderation:
"fucking pissed off, but right."
The sign on the window next to the entrance of OptInRealBig's offices in Westminster leaves no room for misunderstanding. Or irony.
NO SOLICITING.
Have you thought about maybe getting a hobby... like heavy drug use?
Yeah, but then he'll just take some herbal vi@gra and grow back to 6'1", because everyone knows it makes pricks get bigger.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penisses, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship.
The problem is that there is not ZERO new business. He sent out 15 million emails advertising Iraqi most wanted playing cards, and generated 40,000 orders. That's a sucess rate of around .26%. This may be low, but it is something, with a profit of $151,800. So next time he sends out the email to 60 million people, hoping to generate 120,000 responses. At $5.06 profit per order, that would generate him $607,200. And that was just over the course of a week. With really small return rates, the spammer's goal is to send out the message to more and more people. So until the percentage of people responding to spam reaches zero, there will always be people willing to invest in it. And the amount of spam will increase as it nears the end, rather than a slow decline, as spammers desperately try to keep up profits by spamming more and more people to get the diminishing returns on their marketing.
I imagine them like loyd in Dumb and Dummer "What are the odds of me and you getting together?"
"One in a million"
"So you're saying there's a chance!"
(sorry if I butchered the quote, it's been a few years since I saw the movie)
If you can read this then I forgot to check "Post Anonymously"