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I mentioned

Terry Zink's Anti-spam blog
("Protecting your mail from the scum of the internet")
during one of my quarterly "borg-edition" linkfests.
The article about

how much money a spammer actually makes
was quite interesting.
One thing that caught my eye was the insanely low sales rate
that was needed in order to make the enterprise lucrative.
Only 0.12% of the messages get clicked on, and of those,
only 0.5% result in a sale, yet with a sales rate of just
0.0006%, the spammer pulled down an impressive $7690 per week,
or over $300,000 per year.
(
>Researchers who infiltrated the Storm botnet
have their own estimates.
Terry's story is more interesting to me since it comes from
an actual (reformed) spammer.)
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