"Handover Phist" <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:slrneep31t.48o.jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I had always wondered if anyone actually bought from spam e-mail. I
guess someone would have to or the spam would have stopped by now...
You can make money from spam in ways other than selling items:
(*) You can sell lists of e-mail addresses to other spammers. How do you
ensure that an e-mail is valid? Send spam to it, and if they reply, then you
know it's valid. You're don't care if they actually buy the product you're
advertising or not, as long as you can confirm the e-mail address works.
(*) You can direct them to a site which will install malware on their
computer, stealing personal information (which you can then sell) or credit
card or bank info. Again, you don't care if they actually buy the product
you're advertising.
(*) You sell anti-spam tools. You want spam to become a bigger problem
so that more people buy your tools.
etc.
- Oliver
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