...and you wonder: well someone must answer them otherwise they wouldn't bother sending them out? Well research has now been done!
It turns out that from 350 million spam emails sent out advertising pharmaceuticals, they'd have made 28 sales.
Kanich et al. (2008) worked this out by infiltrating a large botnet and altering the spam emails sent out so that they linked to a benign duplicate website under the researcher's control.
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/networking/2008-ccs-spamalytics.pdf
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You know those spam viagra emails everyone gets....
by Teazer on Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:14 pm
Why does man Kill? He kills for food.
And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
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Re: You know those spam viagra emails everyone gets....
by Darth Rock&Roll on Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:54 pm
28 sales a minute isn't bad!
seriously, I probably get at least a quarter of those every month.
seriously, I probably get at least a quarter of those every month.
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