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[mithriltabby]

I can understand spammers selling mortgages and viagra and all that because there’s a continuing market for it, and they only have to get a very small hit rate of fools to make it worthwhile to spam everyone. But haven’t the frelling 419 scammers managed to find all the gullible suckers already? Or is there an extension to P T Barnum’s aphorism: a new sucker logs onto the Internet every minute?

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[roseembolism.livejournal.com]

It's probably all of the above. I'd also put the post/success ratio at something like 100-1000 adverts to each success, AND they probably have to do extra mailings to get past spam blocking and the tendency to delete without reading.

And yeah, check out the number of currently registered internet users, and the potential pool of users. This is still a massive growth medium' so one new sucker a minute might be conservative.

On the bright side, in a few years, Chinese and African internet users will be getting urgent messages from a former governor of California who needs help with a money transfer...

[mithriltabby]

It’s probably even less than that... but it’s just too easy to do bulk spamming right now, so it’s still worthwhile for the slime.

Given the nature of spammers, though, we’ll probably just be getting a lot more spam in languages we can’t read.