Former Spammer Reveals Secrets in New Book

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 20, 2007 @03:50AM from the sleeps-better-on-his-bed-of-royalties dept.

StonyandCher writes "A retired spammer is looking to make money from a tell-all book rather than fleecing people dependent on pharmaceuticals and people with gambling problems. In this Computerworld article 'Ed', a retired spammer, predicts the spam problem will only get worse, aided by consumers with dependencies and faster broadband speeds. From the article: 'He sent spam to recovering gambling addicts enticing them to gambling Web sites. He used e-mail addresses of people known to have bought antianxiety medication or antidepressants and targeted them with pharmaceutical spam. Response rates to spam tend to be a fraction of 1 percent. But Ed said he once got a 30 percent response rate for a campaign. The product? A niche type of adult entertainment: photos of fully clothed women popping balloons ... "Yes, I know I'm going to hell," said Ed."

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Re:photos of fully clothed women popping balloons by beadfulthings · 2007-07-20 05:31 · Score: 3, Informative

Oh, it's easy. Just type in "women popping balloons." It will take you to this site.
Who knew? Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go wash my cache out with soap.

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