If you’ve ever wondered just how much money spammers can make, you’re not alone. For example, would you give your credit card to a web site after receiving a spam for a “T4g H3uer repl1ca w4tch”? Or would you buy drugs from a spam saying “No Pre_script_ti0n Required!”? Many of them are written in broken English, which does not inspire much confidence, and contain poor-quality graphics, or strange typography designed to trick antispam software (such as Intego Personal Antispam, the intelligent antispam program). When you look at your spam, you may wonder just how it is that these messages trick people into buying anything. Somehow, once your e-mail address gets harvested, it multiplies faster than drosophila, getting sold from spammer to spammer, until everyone has it. Several of Intego’s employees get 200-500 messages a day, and this without ever circulating their e-mail addresses in forums, mailing lists or on web sites. You may wonder why you get so many spam messages every day.
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