Re:How to Hide $400M
by phil21 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:22PM
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You severely and drastically underestimate the size of the "shady economy" on the Internet.
I used to laugh a little 10 years ago even when people said spamming couldn't be profitable. Spammer could e-mail the same million people every single day, and still get 8-12 $30 commissions every single time for months.
Expand that to even a low rate of 50M e-mails/day and you can see how profitable it can be.
And the "web spam" made the e-mail spam market look pretty much trivial in comparison - before you even get into the outright illegal stuff like hacking boxes and doing drive-by installs.
I used to laugh a little 10 years ago even when people said spamming couldn't be profitable. Spammer could e-mail the same million people every single day, and still get 8-12 $30 commissions every single time for months.
Expand that to even a low rate of 50M e-mails/day and you can see how profitable it can be.
And the "web spam" made the e-mail spam market look pretty much trivial in comparison - before you even get into the outright illegal stuff like hacking boxes and doing drive-by installs.