 NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
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| Let me calculate this Cost of buying 350 million email addresses = $15
Cost of sending 350 email messages = $5 (if that)
28 sales returned resulting in a profit of $10 per sale
$280 - $20 = $260 profit for virtually no investment in time.
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 jmn1207Premium
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Ashburn, VA | said by Nightfall:Cost of buying 350 million email addresses = $15 Cost of sending 350 email messages = $5 (if that) 28 sales returned resulting in a profit of $10 per sale $280 - $20 = $260 profit for virtually no investment in time. Don't forget the satisfaction of making 1 person out of 12.5 million be longer in bed watch 4 zoom! p3n1s ci4liss!!  |
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i'd say even the $15 on the email addresses is not really needed since, from what i've read, spammers have bots that scour the internet for email addresses. considering that it looks like spamming is moving more towards bot nets, i'd say the cost of the internet connection is probably only ~$50 with a good bot net. you are also assuming the spammers have somewhat legit business offers as in it isn't a scam to get thousands from you and it won't steal your identity. any way you look at it, there are 2 things that are true about spamming, 1) highly profitable for the work you put in and 2) you are of a person.
sure would be funny if the bot found the spammer's email address and start to spam that address too. |
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Yup. It's a 1,400% ROI. It's no wonder that you can't stop spam. With a Rate of Return like that, you will always have someone with a low sense of morals willing to cash in.
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said by cornelius785:i'd say even the $15 on the email addresses is not really needed since, from what i've read, spammers have bots that scour the internet for email addresses. considering that it looks like spamming is moving more towards bot nets, i'd say the cost of the internet connection is probably only ~$50 with a good bot net. you are also assuming the spammers have somewhat legit business offers as in it isn't a scam to get thousands from you and it won't steal your identity. any way you look at it, there are 2 things that are true about spamming, 1) highly profitable for the work you put in and 2) you are of a person. sure would be funny if the bot found the spammer's email address and start to spam that address too. I was calculating it out as if you bought the email addresses. They sell 500 million addresses on ebay for $10 or so. I have no idea how much it costs to relay that many emails through an open relay, but there has to be software to do that for free. Still, its a huge ROI. |
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| Also remember that that e-mail address purchase can be used multiple times. So if you buy 350 million e-mail addresses for $15 and use that list for even 5 spam campaigns, your investment per campaign (for the addresses) drops to $3. Using the rest of your figures, your ROI rises to 3,500% ($280 / ($5 + $3)). Use the list for 15 campaigns and your ROI is 4,667%.
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quatrixPremium
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Davie, FL
kudos:2 | reply to Nightfall
Whew. I thought that was going to be another stupid MasterCard "priceless" joke -- you know, the ones that stopped being funny about 10 years ago and weren't even very funny back then. |
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