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How the Spam Industry is Sustained
mOoZik writes "The BBC has an interesting article about spam and why it's still around. According to a survey, nearly 1/3 of users have clicked on spam messages and 1/10 have bought products advertised therein. "If no-one responded to junk e-mail and didn't buy products sold in this way, then spam would be as extinct as the dinosaurs.""
and my mortgage has never been longer or harder.
Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em
But what ratio have received the $43M from an fallen African state?
Omnis amans amens
"The list of words most commonly hidden by the spammers from anti-spam software reveals that most spam is about the old favourites: money, drugs and sex," said Mr Cluley.
The people buying that junk should get a Cluley.
The clue by four is gonna get a workout tomorrow.
"Researchers to investigate why they were the last to figure this out."
BTW, I would like to make the public announcement that I have a basement filled with cases of VI@AGRA. If anyone wants any, please reply to this post, I'll be more than happy to ship some to you at a reduced cost.
Dinosaurs are extinct? Damn, and I just bought two velociraptors from a guy from Nigeria.
10%? pshhh!
50% voted for Bush.
I'm writing a virus.
It will randomly generate mortgage/penis enlargement/teen sluts/housewives/OEM Software spam.
It will have a "Click here to respond" link.
If you click the link, it wipes your hard drive and somehow sets your computer on fire. I need to work out how to kill the CPU fan or something...
These people who are responding to spam need to have their computers confiscated, for great justice.
That is all.
Cheers
Stor
"Yeah well there's a lot of stuff that should be, but isn't"
They've all sold out. So it now counts as money.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Well... '1 in 10 people' had to respond, to be accurate...
But you should see the SIZE of my penis!!!!
Perhaps we could tell them the earth will be eaten by a giant space goat and put them all in a giant space ship to "save" them...
Linux is not Windows
Yeah, it really is a "not wonder", eh?
You want to know who isn't running Firefox 2.x? They spell it "definately" and "rediculous".
No, it was really 10%. However, by taking massive amounts of VI4GR@, they've made themselves swell up to 50%
So, how much do you pay her?
I am very impressed by your Republican ability to find grammar errors. Please help me become a Republican so that I, too, may find grammatical errors and make tired old jokes.
Avoid Missing Ball for High Score
Be on the lookout for a verile male with a sixteen-inch penis, a stack of college diplomas, all the descrabled satellite TV he can watch, and low low mortgage rates.
I have cable.
1) Do you want a bigger pen1s?
2) Need help with your m0rtg@ge?
3) Would you like to help a persecuted stranger in a foreign country to make money?
Definately.
Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
These are Americans we are talking about. If they got 50% bigger, most of them would collapse under their own gravitational pull.
250m American blackholes in Blackburn, Oklahoma. Now they know how many American blackholes it takes to fill the Albert Hall
No sharp objects, I'm a programmer!
1/3 of jokes get modded OT. If you get the joke, mod 1 in 3 insightful/interesting/underrated to restore karma balance.
BORDERLINE RETARD.---2.3%ile 70 IQ
DULL-NORMAL----------9.1%ile 80 IQ
AVERAGE-------------25.0%ile 90 IQ
general pop. ave.---50.0%ile 100 IQ
high sch. grad ave.-60.0%ile 105 IQ
BRIGHT-NORMAL-------75.0%ile 110 IQ
college grad ave.---84.1%ile 115 IQ
SUPERIOR------------9l.0%ile 120 IQ
Ph.D. & M.D. ave.---95.0%ile 125 IQ
Mensa---------------98.0%ile 131 IQ
Slashdot ave.-------99.9%ile 146 IQ
I took the liberty of adding slashdot to the table. I hope nobody minds.