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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #15 on Fri 21 Mar 2008 07:05 AM (UTC)
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Exactly! It's a mystery to me why people actually think it would work. And like you say, why they think the stuff would actually even arrive (assuming it worked). If you got a paper note written in terrible English that was filled with random book citations and crazy formatting, would you feel confident sending them a check?

And yes I also find it quite amusing to think of how one would advertise the "enhancements" in question. :-)



And yes, I did mean what you said about the comparison to TV ads.

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Posted by Conner   USA  (381 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #16 on Sat 22 Mar 2008 04:33 AM (UTC)
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You know, Mr. Barnum once said something about a sucker being born every minute.. I suspect his proclamation still holds for spam recipients too.

As for the television advertisement analogy.. I see, I suppose in that sense, I don't see how your statement:

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Almost all the spam I've gotten has been trying to sell something; I thought that was kind of the point of spam. :-)


is really saying anything directly different than my statement was:

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I wouldn't expect that most spammers have any "wares" to make money off of but that the majority make their money from click-through advertisements and such. *shrug*

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Posted by Darwin   USA  (125 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #17 on Sat 22 Mar 2008 04:46 AM (UTC)
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It sounds like the difference between making money by selling you something and making money by showing you something.

In one instance, the spammer makes money when you buy something, but in the other, the spammer makes money simply by showing you something (if you happen to click on it.)
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Posted by David Haley   USA  (3,881 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #18 on Sat 22 Mar 2008 09:53 PM (UTC)
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Yes, Darwin put his finger on it, that is the difference I was trying to point out.

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You know, Mr. Barnum once said something about a sucker being born every minute.. I suspect his proclamation still holds for spam recipients too.

Yes, you are probably right about that! :) It still kind of boggles my mind that somebody would think it a good idea to send money to some random dude in Nigeria... the purported prince of the country, no less! :)

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Posted by Conner   USA  (381 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #19 on Sat 22 Mar 2008 09:56 PM (UTC)
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I suppose if the spammer happens to also be the person behind the site they're sending you to then they would have their own 'wares', but I suspect most spam doesn't come directly from the sites selling the actual products but from folks generating traffic for those sites for the click-through payments and/or commission payments. Either way, this is all conjecture anyway, no?

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Posted by Samson   USA  (683 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #20 on Sun 23 Mar 2008 07:20 AM (UTC)
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The truly genius spammers will have something to sell *AND* make money off of your click-thru as well. :)

Why anyone falls for the crap is beyond me, but then as they say, it takes brains to be dangerous.
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