If spammers can abuse something, they gonna abuse it

  • sushibowl
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    4 months ago

    I’m not 100% sure what you’re asking, but spam is generally a very low margin, very high volume kind of business. So I wouldn’t assume these people are making ungodly amounts of money. I did a bit of searching and found estimates on the order of $200 million per year for spammers and spam-advertised businesses combined. Sure, it’s not nothing. But on a global scale that’s not necessarily ungodly amounts.

    Compare for example revenues in the illegal drug trade, which globally accounts for hundreds of billions of dollars yearly.