JPCass
join:2001-01-23
Denver, CO | The laws of spamming Isn't one of the "laws of spamming" that spammers always end up bankrupt? Of course, jailed is a good ending to go along with it.
I also doubt that spammers really have as much money as it seems, even when things are going well. They have business expenses for everything from all the fat pipes they use to regular payroll taxes, plus all sorts of expenses from lawyers to lowlifes who run zombie networks. And given the bottom-feeding nature of their business, they probably end up with non-paying customers and bad business deals, lowlifes who rip them off and don't deliver as promised, and perhaps even "protection money" and outright extortion paid to internet mobsters.
Reading about real-life organized criminals and mobsters, I see that in reality it is a pretty mundane and ugly existence, and that they support seemingly lavish lifestyles only sqeaking by crime-to-crime (as versus the legitimate paycheck-to-paycheck). My guess is that the reality of the spammer's life is similarly gritty and unpleasant. |
| I'm guessing that there are a few "high-profile" spammers that rake in millions of dollars and end up living a grand lifestyle. They continue this way until they are either caught and prosecuted or until some new spammer tops them. (They can also retire before being prosecuted and keep their riches, but they probably rarely do this.)
Meanwhile, there is a larger group of "low-profile" spammers. These folks, at best, live paycheck to paycheck and don't pull much in from spamming. They might also not be sending the same amount of spams as the high-profile spammers so the trade off might be that they are less likely to be caught and prosecuted. After all, why go after 1,000 low-profile spammers who send out 1,000 spam e-mails each when you can go after one high-profile spammer who sends out 1,000,000 spam e-mails?
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