Spammers are super stinky, sub-creatures.
You make Target look angelic.
In my old blog, I had to turn off the comments to stop the hundreds of spam I was getting daily.
BTW….KEITH LAWLER, who was our web designer is the BEST!!! (even if he does fit the first 5 characteristics of the profile below).
What is the profile of a Spammer?
Predominantly male
16 - 35 years old
Single
Works from home
Technically competent
Tendency to be involved in other illegal activities e.g. credit card fraud
Consider their activities to be harmless
Can/will work with other Spammers on large campaigns
Never use the same IP address twice
Favorite spam software
News Blast
MailBomb
Prospect Mailer
Amount of spam
A single Spammer can, potentially, send 84,000,000 (84 million pieces of spam per day). This is an extreme case but is possible. Ronnie Scelson boasts that he can send this much junk mail every single day via 3 superfast e-mail servers.
Income potential
A “good” Spammer can easily earn $100,000 per year. Spammers work on a piece rate so the more spam they send the higher their income potential. On average 1,000,000 pieces of junk mail sent out will result in 150 “sales” or leads. This in turn generally means big profits for the Spammer.
Ronnie Scelson is currently one of the most notorious Spammers in the world. He claims to have covert agreements (sometimes referred to as pink agreements) with ISPs to allow him to send the 84,000,000 pieces of junk e-mail per day that he claims to. Typical of Spammers and virus authors, he sees nothing wrong with his, “business”.
Software to COMBAT SPAM
Akismet
Top Anti-SPAM Software
ClamXav
Reading on the subject:
How Antispam Software Works
Inside the SPAM Cartel
SPAM Kings
Useful Anti-SPAM Websites
The Top 10 Worst ROKSO Spammers
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1 Carter F Smith // Jan 16, 2008 at 9:39 am
Doc Searls’ recent post suggests if PR wishes to remain relevant in an environment where networked markets get smarter faster than those that would spin them, the profession needs to define and satisfy a market for something other than spin. I think that means take the time to reshape the model based on what we, the people, take our time to tell you, big business, what we want.
I’m thinking fighting fire with fire is the best way. Can you imagine the message that big business would get (or have the opportunity to “get”) if thousands of their would-be customers sent them a message in a language they purport to understand? Is there a chance that their procedures would change if a group of folks started using their tactics to convey a very important, business dependent message? I’m thinking that’s what it would take.
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