Reply to post: Re: Spammers stealing from spammers

BILLION email address spam scam: Feds collar two blokes, hunt another

Tromos

Re: Spammers stealing from spammers

All that usually happens when you hit the 'unsubscribe' link on spam is that you are verifying that the email address is correct and currently active which then makes it much more valuable to sell on to other spammers. If the price for 10000 addresses is 5 euros, the same number of verified active ones can fetch 25 to 50.

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