The heart-aches and heart-breaks of a spammer:
“My operating costs have gone up 1,000 percent this year, just so I can figure out how to get around all these filters,” said Balan, a former truck driver and pinball machine mechanic.
Five years ago, Balan says, he’d send 30 million messages in a day. Most would get through. He’d earn up to $10,000 in commissions for a good day’s work.
Now, even though Balan keeps a database with 240 million e-mail addresses, only about fifth get through the filters. An average mailing earns him a paltry $250.
Stand right there, guy. Let me go get a rock Kleenex …
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