..To others!
We all get spam, and it drives us all crazy - right?
Have you ever wondered why there is so much spam out there?
The answer is simply really - spam makes people money
If there was no money in it, there would be a lot less money.
How it works
There are basically 3 ways to get rich from spamming others as follows:
1) Send a bunch of emails to your "pontential customers" telling them about your great product and why they should by it.
This is actually the least effective way of making money. Often the company seems to
foget your are a potential customer and rather then giving your something, they are trying to get you to "buy" something. Not only does this just piss people off, but it quickly ends up just going into the spam/junk mail folder, never to be looked at again
2) Create an ad-campain for your PPA (Pay Per action) advertising and affilate programs and suggest the product to others. (In this case you not selling your own products, but trying to sell others products. Often companies pay you just for getting others to fill in their email address and subscribing. Send out $1000 and get 50 people to signup, you may make $50.00
Still not a "great" idea. At first it might work, but quickly you will fall into the same category as #1, you get viewed as a "spammer" and sucked into others junk folders
3) Enter "fake/other peoples" information into affiliate pay per action (email address) programs including name/address information if asked and collect the money for these sign-ups
This is the one that screws over everyone, and is the main reason you get all the spam you get!
The "spammers" (or SCUM if you prefer). Submit your name and email addresses to services that pay for this information. You can sign up for several services that will give you about $1 or sojust for signing up. Just google "cost per lead affiliate marketing" to learn more.
From the spammers point of view it's a beautiful setup. They go through their own SPAM folder, and look for spam they've been sent, nothing the From: and To: fields for email addresses to capture.
Then they go to their own affiliate links created previously and sign-up various offers using those email addresses.
However to be safe, they first hide their IP Address using a proxy server (eg: TOR), and where possible they use fake "from" addresses as well.
So the sign-up is untracable, and they get $ for doing it for each email address they find. So your email address is resold and signed-up for items over and over again, without your knowledge or persmission, each time making the scumbag a few cents each time.
BTW: This is fraud and is illegal, so if you try it, watch out. You can go to jail for it if you get caught!
Monday, September 15, 2008
Your email address is worth thousands of dollars
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