Spammers Make Profits Without Making A Sale
from the who-cares-if-no-one-is-buying dept
For years, I've been asking reporters to find out who the hell is buying stuff from spam, thus, making spam worthwhile. Reporters always tell me that they can't seem to track down anyone gullible enough to (admit that they) buy from spam emails. Well, now it turns out that some people believe that it doesn't matter if anyone buys or not. Spammers are working more on advertising scams to get money these days. The whole point is to trick you into clicking on their site, where you'll get swamped with ads or spyware - for which they make money. It appears that, as the market of eligible suckers may be drying up, spammers are increasingly having to resort to more outright scams to keep up their spamming business. Of course, the article doesn't mention what seems to be the most profitable spam business out there: selling other spammers email lists.
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Whether it continues to follow MLM patterns depends on whether the upline actually monitors/collects from the downline after that initial buy-in; I suspect this does happen because new anti-circumvention spelling techniques are distributed quite efficiently.
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This is to all who signed up for the "do not call" law. This week I received a card in the mail that looked all right. It said "vote for your favorite cola--Pepsi or Coke--and receive a complementary 12 pack." It didn't look suspicious, but for some reason I kept looking at it. THEN I found it!!
At the bottom of the card there was a VERY small statement. It was SO small it was hard to read--but here is what it said: .... "By completing this form, you agree that sponsors and co-sponsors of this offer may telephone you, even if your number is found on a 'do not call' registry or list."
Urban Legends link:
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/bl_do_not_call2.htm
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why to advertisers put up with this?
If advertisers treated web ads like media ads and decided how much they're worth based on whether they actually increase sales, rather than just blindly paying for clicks, maybe these tricks would die away, and the advertisers might actually get their money's worth.
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