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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.
[...]
“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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