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[FYI] Who profits from spam?



http://www.msnbc.com/news/940490.asp?0ql=c9p&cp1=1#BODY

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Who profits from spam? Surprise    

Many companies with names you know are benefiting  

By Bob Sullivan 
MSNBC Aug. 8 —  

There wouldn’t be spam if there wasn’t money in spam. So to 
understand what primes the spam economy, MSNBC.com answered a single 
unsolicited commercial e-mail. Following this one spam trail led us 
from Alabama to Argentina, from a tiny Birmingham-based firm and 
someone named “Erp” past a notorious spammer named Super-Zonda — and 
right through big-name companies like Ameriquest, Quicken, and 
LoanWeb. And that’s just the beginning. The truth about spam is this: 
While the dirty work is done by secretive, faceless computer jockeys 
who are constantly evading authorities, lots of companies with names 
you know profit, at least tangentially, from their efforts.  

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 “The only thing that’s going to make spam go away is if people do 
not respond,” he said. “When e-mail first started, you could send out 
50,000 e-mails a day and make money. Now you have to invest a lot of 
money and time, you get a return rate of less than one-tenth of one 
percent. One day it will become so you can’t send enough to make any 
money. And that’s the only thing that will stop spam.” 

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