Sep 29 2008
Question: How Do Spammers Make Any Money?
I get asked this a lot too and did a an early post called How Many People Actually Buy Something from Spam? which covers this subject.
Basically this is a conversion problem.
Say the spammers send out ten thousands (not uncommon number, sometimes more) spam messages and out of that say two people click through and they make money off of them. That is 0.0002% and they made money off of it.
Simple math and a little scary that it doesn’t take that much unfortunately.
That is why we at IDT feel it is so important to push education out. That way the spammers stop making money and stop spamming (hopefully).
