Posts by Peter Griffin

Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is dead at 56

resquiat in pace Steve

I'll be having a beer tonight in your honour.

RUSTOCK TAKEDOWN: How the world's worst botnet was KO'd

Monetary Gain

To Anonymous Coward (2 above):

Money is made in the spam industry as follows:

Company A (Producer of inferior quality/fake pharmaceuticals) contacts Company B (Spamming Company) either directly or through an underground message board for people looking for spammers. Spamit was a recent one that got taken down.

Company B then agrees to email out a large amount of emails for a certain price. I'm not sure of current rates, but it could be something like 5,000 per 1 million emails or what have you.

Company A makes it profits by having a certain percentage of the people that get the spam (even less then 0.05 percent would give them a good profit) actually purchasing their crapola. Also, they can then, if they wish, potentially take the purchasers credit card details and take them to the cleaners.

That's how I understand it to be.