12% of E-mail Users Have Responded To Spam

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 15, 2009 @07:30AM from the related-stories-are-must-reads dept.

Meshach writes "An article in Ars Technica claims that 12% of internet users have actually responded to spam messages and tried to buy items. Although I find this hard to believe, it does explain why my spam folder is always full." Also in spam news, wjousts links to a Technology Review article about how spammers get your e-mail address, writing "E-mail addresses in comments posted to a website had a high probability of getting spammed, while of the 70 e-mail addresses submitted during registration at various websites, only 4 got spammed."

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Nothing to see here by ground.zero.612 · 2009-07-15 08:49 · Score: 0, Troll

Would it be surprising to learn that some % of people buy shit from snail-mail spam too?

If so I've lost faith in humanity, or at least /.

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