How does spam even work?!

[dolari]

You Are Stupid Dumbass If U Pay Retail Pricee For Softwares

How does that get me to WANT to buy your shit?

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[aadroma.livejournal.com]

It's apparently the newest selling technique. Next we'll see some guy say something derogatory about your mom to get you to lease a car.

[dmlaenker.livejournal.com]

Well, it makes me wonder about Retail Pricee.

What a worthless git she is. Why do I bother paying her to do anything at all?

Good help is hard to find these days.

[toastyman.livejournal.com]

I got this today:


Subject: The cheapest 802.11 A/B/G Cables ANYWHERE
To: toasty@dragondata.com


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6 foot 802.11g cable: $14.99! 5X FASTER!

Wonder why our priices are unbelievably L0W?
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Yeah... 802.11 is wireless networking.... which... doesn't need cables.

I'm assuming they'd just ship me an empty box.

[drkbish.livejournal.com]

You should see some of the spam subject lines I get:

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you much have the smallest rbracy wqjeszfyj
that is why they call you smallie znmrjex nzeyjzvo
How did you compare to the other guys in the locker room x

I'd tell you what the actual messages said if SpamAssassin didn't score them so highly that they immediately got sent to /dev/null. :-)

[punkcub.livejournal.com]

"U Pay Retail Pricee For Softwares? You Are Stupid Dumbass If U Dont come down 2 Wong's Discount! Have shareware Doom for 25 cent! Biatch!"

[kengr]

They are going for the totally clueless market. Remember, their costs are so low that if one person in a *million* responds, they make a profit.

Which is why nothing less than making spamming carry *huge* fines (parttly to pay for tyhe trouble in tracking them down) is ever going to make a dent in it.