Re: AP: "Man gets prison after hundreds of thousands of spam e-mails"
by mike weber <fairportfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 1, 2008 at 02:24 AM
On 30 Apr 2008 23:57:25 -0400, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>mike weber <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Hundreds of thousands to which he confessed.
>> Do you honestly believe a spammer would send out that few?
>
>Good point. I guess it's like saying the Ordovician period was
>seconds ago. It was -- about 10^16 seconds ago.
>
>But why believe he got $3.5 million dollars? Spammers are lucky to
>make minimum wage. If he got a dollar for every million spams --
>a typical rate -- to get $3.5 million he must have sent over three
>*trillion* spams. Possible, but unlikely.
He wasn't getting money directly from people who believed his spams;
he was running pump-and-dump scams on penny stocks.
Anyone who got taken would have been taken for hundreds or even
thousands of dollars.
