[SLUG] Spammers - who pays 'em?

From: Ronald KA4INM Youvan (ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2004 - 20:06:40 EDT


Hi all:

   Recently my received SPAM has been increasing exponentially,
so I thought about it.
   I figured, they must be being paid every time anyone contacts their
webs site to deliver images for the SPAM message, as though I visited their
site, as though they were advertising someone's product/s. ($ per hit)
   I decided to get all mail and shut down my network connection,
before reading any mail, and deleting all SPAM instead of forwarding it
to RoadRunner.
   My over 50 daily SPAMs dropped to ZERO in two days. Their robot
noticed my replies had stopped and removed me from it's mailing list.

> I receive spam after spam after spam; day after day after day, as I
> am sure every one else on this list does too. Which makes me
> wonder; who is paying these companies' which just exist to send
> out spam for other companies'??? How are these spammers generating
> revenue??? There must be some demand for their services, otherwise,
> how could they stay in business???? If the money dried up, they'd
> stop, wouldn't they?

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