MANCHESTER, New Hampshire -- A security flaw at a website operated by the purveyors of penis-enlargement pills has provided the world with a depressing answer to the question: Who in their right mind would buy something from a spammer?
An order log left exposed at one of Amazing Internet Products' websites revealed that, over a four-week period, some 6,000 people responded to e-mail ads and placed orders for the company's Pinacle herbal supplement. Most customers ordered two bottles of the pills at a price of $50 per bottle.
Do the math and you begin to understand why spammers are willing to put up with the wrath of spam recipients, Internet service providers and federal regulators.
Since July 4, Amazing Internet Products would have grossed more than half a million dollars from Goringly.biz, one of several sites operated by the company to hawk its penis pills.
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:46:32 -0600, John Thornton
<jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> >I've got a question that probably sounds naive, but, what on earth is
> >the purpose of spam? And who the fuck produces this shit?
> >The volume seemed to take a much steeper increase about two or
> >three years ago
> >Also it seems to have changed topics over the years. I remember the
> >good old days when it was just stupid porn ads. After that it went
> >through financial phase with loan-con-jobs and investment schemes. Now
> >days it seems cheap drugs from Canada or Mexico are the favored
> >themes.
> >
> >CG
>
> I have wondered how the response rate couldn't be absolutely zero for
> anything except perhaps porn and off-shore drugs. Who refinances their home
> with a firm that sends them unwanted garbage? I would like to see the
> response rates, positive responses, not people responding telling the
> spammers to go fuck themselves. I know it costs little to produce and send
> but it still costs something and I have never heard of anyone refinancing a
> loan because of spam. I would expect that people would go out of their way
> to avoid doing business with spammers.
> I noticed a big jump about 18 months ago when my daily spam count went from
> 1 or 2 to about 8 or 10.
> If anyone knows where there is any good information of response rates to
> spam pass it on.
>
> John Thornton
>
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