Crazy: Spam (e-mail) Exposed

I want to meet this one person out of 12.5 million people!

From Techradar.com...

A new study details how spammers still make pots of money, despite only receiving a response to one in every 12,500,000 emails they spam out.

The study, by a team of computer scientists from UC, Berkeley and UC, San Diego infiltrated the Storm network, which uses hijacked home PCs to relay much of the junk email you spend your days wading through while wondering 'who the hell responds to this stuff?'

Well. Now you know. One gullible idiot in 12,500,000 recipients. Or thereabouts.

"After 26 days, and almost 350 million email messages, only 28 sales resulted," says the research paper. Yet even with this apparently abysmal response rate of less than 0.00001 per cent, the researchers still estimate that the controllers of a network the size of Storm are still bringing in about $7,000 a day or $3.5m over a year.

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