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Porn Dominates the Spam Battlefield
An anonymous reader writes "New York Times has published an article that explores the economics that control what type of spam shows up in your inbox. The study was done by CipherTrust and shows that porn spam is 280 times more effective than spam advertising pharmacy drugs. Paul Judge offered the following towards an explanation: 'If you look at some of the oldest and most successful forms of business on earth, they revolve around sex.'"
pron spam is 280 times more effective than spam advertising pharmacy drugs
I prefer the Combo ads, where it tries to sell you Viagra and shows you pictures of who you could use it on.
Snake oil is snake oil, but free boobies? PRICELESS
In a word... "duh".
What is going to grab anyone's attention more? "We ship quadraphexametaline to your door for a flat rate of $9.99 - click here to order" or "18 year old Mariana Gottemoff does immoral things with a bearclaw - click here to view"
Those who believe the Internet is private,
find their privates are on the Internet.
I've gone blind and can't see my monitor. Plus my palm is too hairy to click the mouse.
Its not just the spam, dial my sig...
THIS SPACE FOR RENT Call 1-800-555-CARL
What about us poor souls who use the preview mode which only shows a couple of lines of text only? We miss out on the free pics because all we see is something like "Algorithm Leotard Temple Quantum Holiday FR3E P-0R.N!" (An actual line from my spam bin).
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
I must be too old, all I get are c 1 a l a s and v 1 @ g r 4 SPAM. Perhaps if I bought some, then I'd start getting porn spam so I could put my prescription to good use...
The best spam email I ever got was the one saying "Genuine fake rolexes"
From the looks of it, porn spam news items on Slashdot are a lot more successful than medical spam news items.
Where were you when the voynix came?
What? The internet is for porn? Say it ain't so!
Seriously, it's all people think about, though perhaps not actively. Sure we love technology, but even when I'm using Mac OS X every few seconds my brain strays to thoughts like "I wish I knew a beatiful woman who uses Mac OS X" or "wow, some naked female professional tennis players could really spruce up the next OS X commercial."
Haiku for you!
I'm trying to figure out the balance here: All spammers ever offer me is porn and penis enlargement pills. What I want to know is, if all I'm doing is jacking off to porn, why the hell does it matter how big it is?
This is not my sandwich.
Let's face it... It's a visual medium. If Nigerian scam artists were hotter, and included photos, they'd probably get more traffic, and make more money.
Someday a real rain is gonna come...