How much do spammers actually make?

re: How much do spammers actually make?

Dr K Chaudhry — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:52:34 GMT

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re: How much do spammers actually make?

Internet Marketer — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:26:48 GMT

You can't ever possibly stop the industry of unsolicited bulk mailing. Millions will be made every hour and you and nobody can do anything about it. You might as well join the darkside and retire your family.

re: How much do spammers actually make?

Cox, Ken — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:03:48 GMT

Perhaps there should be "white hat" spammers who re-take control of bots and innoculate the machines against further use by spammers.

re: How much do spammers actually make?

Michael Clark — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:09:02 GMT

So maybe we should start following all the links in the spam we get so we can increase their click-through rate, and maybe increase their "bulletproof hosting" costs, but definitely reduce their "click-through-to-sales ratio".

Your first comment on this post is spam.

re: How much do spammers actually make?

Rob McEwen — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:06:03 GMT

I think that, in many cases, the amount of money is small. HOWEVER--the problem here is that to some 17-year-old Russian kid, making a mere $500 off the commissions in sales from a botnet generated spam sent to 10 million people is like a professional in the U.S. getting an extra $10K bonus. So millions in the US and Europe get spammed... just so one punk Russian kid can make an extra $500 bucks.

In other cases, phishers have found that paying lackeys to spend 40+ hours a week *manually* sending spams (one-at-a-time) though freemail accounts actually pays off. All it take is one jackpot of several thousand dollars and, to them, that is like tens of thousands of dollars to you and me. And hitting tens of thousands of dollars is like millios to you and me. So, in the case of phishers, working this scheme days, or even weeks, between jackpots is still a very lucrative business.

And that level of manual touch one-by-one is why phishes are getting so hard to block these days. They can quickly change up a word here and there with each message and then bypass many rules-based filters and clearing house checksum filters. There is no URI for a spam filter to grab onto. And they send from large ISP or freemail ISPs, so the IP address doesn't help much.

A third one is the "snowshoe spammer", which are sometimes individuals, or unethical ESPs. I think this is where you'll find more Americans at work in the spamming business. That would have to be a profitable business, or else they'd not be doing it. This is the one I understand the least. They should know better and their efforts ought to be more profitable in a more honest venture. (you'd think!)

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