{"id":26443,"date":"2012-02-16T20:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T03:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/why-spam-exists.html"},"modified":"2012-02-17T06:41:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T13:41:06","slug":"why-spam-exists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/why-spam-exists.html","title":{"rendered":"Why spam exists"},"content":{"rendered":"

It exists because it works.<\/p>\n

"But who would possibly respond to such a ridiculous email?" you might well ask..<\/p>\n

But the cost of sending email is so cheap, that only getting 1 response for every 12.5 million spam emails sent<\/i> is enough to turn a tidy profit.<\/p>\n

Given that you can probably convince 1 in 12.5 million people to do practically anything, I expect we'll be seeing spammers around for a long time. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Michelle Marie<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Success Rate of Spam<\/b>
via: http:\/\/goo.gl\/dCjNt<\/a><\/p>\n

Did you know that spammers get only one response to every 12,5 million emails they send?<\/p>\n

But what is even more interesting, yet even with this apparently abysmal response rate, it is enough for them to make a nice profit. The researchers from University of California UC San Diego sent about 469 million junk e-mail messages for the fake pharmacy campaign. The response rate was less than 0.00001%.<\/p>\n

However, these conversions would have resulted in revenues of $2,731.88 \u2014 a bit over $100 a day for the measurement period, said the researchers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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