A Day In The Life Of A Spammer 313
kaip writes "Internetnews.com has a story of a spammer. The individual sends 60 million spam emails for four days worth of work and claims that one in 19 of AOL users clicks the links in his mortgage spam (this number should however be taken with a grain of salt, see rules 1 and 2). Maybe not
everybody has heard of the Boulder
Pledge... The article also tells how the CAN-SPAM Act,
which legalises spamming, is turning the US into the spam haven of the world. Currently, 86 percent of the total spam volume is coming from the States."
Finnaly (Score:4, Funny)
I'll let Hanover Fiste speak to this: (Score:5, Funny)
A day in the life of a spammer (Score:5, Funny)
8:35 AM: Morning stretches and exercise.
8:55 AM: Pray for forgiveness for being a subhuman piece of filth, hoping to save already-rotten soul from the deepest pits of Hell.
9:00 AM: Shower.
...etc.
What really gets me... (Score:5, Funny)
1. I don't want a degree from a prestigious non-accredited university.
2. My sex life is well beyond being helped by Viagra, or anything else in pill form.
3. Outsourcing means I can't afford a mortgage (okay, actually I'm employed, but work with my joke).
WeThe Spammer's Email Address (Score:2, Funny)
"Richard Cunningham" more than likely isn't his real name; he won't say one way or another. But that's the name that appears on the WHOIS record for Spamsoft.biz, a domain he owns.
Here is the WHOIS record [whois.net]
Email: ProMan@animail.net
Web: www.spamsoft.biz
Quickly! Slashdot his website! Send all your viagra, big tit/dick and Nigerian money to his email account!
Re:*sigh* (Score:2, Funny)
spam has nothing to do with profitability. and everything to do with being easy and dirt fucking cheap.
face it. spammers are lazy fucking scum, and if it were made expensive/difficult to send email then they would move on to some other form of despised behavior.
Re:A day in the life of a spanner? (Score:3, Funny)
9.00AM: Get pulled out and made to remove some nuts from a 1950's Chevvy.
10.00AM: Get pulled out again and made to tighten same nuts.
10.30AM: Get put back in the toolbox along with all my cousins, as Ozzie has his coffee-break.
11.00AM: Get pullled out and made to remove the differential from an off-roader which went off-terrain.
12.00PM: Made to put differential back on off-roader, and used as a paper-weight as Ozzie goes for his lunch-break and reads the newspaper.
Re:Our love-hate relationship with business-scum (Score:1, Funny)