Roy asked: The thing that gets me is: what are they thinking? If someone is trying to filter out their offers, how likely is it that that person will decide to become a customer when their efforts are thwarted?
  1. Most of the filtering is done by clueful sysadmins, they want to get clueless users.
  2. Apparently the necessary success rate to keep genuine advertising spammers in business is just over one in a million.
  3. Most spam nowdays has nothing to do with advertising dubious products, even if it pretends to be. It is a big pyramid scheme where they sell each other lists of addresses (and hopefully the whole thing will implode real soon). In these emails, all they want is for the sucker to view it in an HTML-aware mail client, to pull in a web bug and confirm the address is live. It doesn't matter if it's immediately deleted. In fact I'm increasingly seeing ones where the "click here" links don't even resolve.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Enough is Enough - Taking the fight back to the Internet scammers by Anonymous Monk
in thread Enough is Enough - Taking the fight back to the Internet scammers by Anonymous Monk

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