Re: teergrubing
Nigel Metheringham <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.mail.exim.spamassassin |
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| Organization | InTechnology plc |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 20:47, [email protected] wrote: > The idea isn't to DOS -- the idea, is to have a clickthrough for every > recipient. This is an interesting idea, but I think you have the economics wrong in that you assume that the spammer runs the website and the spammer's aim is to get final sales. > Mr.Spammer sends out 5,000,000 emails. 5,000,000 x 1k isn't much > bandwidth. He only needs 5 people to buy his wares to turn a profit on > the mailing – and he doesn't expect more than 200 people or so to click > through to his website. There were a couple of articles around a week or so back regarding financial spamming. Spammers were paid on click through rates so... If you have *every* single victim click through then the spammer gets lots and lots of money. This might not seem like a good result, but the people *buying* the spamming services are paying out lots more money for no return. You have just broken the economic model - they have to fix it. An ideal next phase would be to feed them duff additional information - ideally give them all each others phone numbers :-) Nigel. -- [ Nigel Metheringham [email protected] ] [ - Comments in this message are my own and not ITO opinion/policy - ]