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high-res photoBurning Question: Why Do We Still Get So Much Spam?
“It’s simple economics,” says Jamie Tomasello, abuse operations manager at Cloudmark, a major antispam firm. “We will see the end of spam when people stop responding to it.”
That’s the demand part of the equation; the supply side is equally daunting. “It costs $3,000 to rent a botnet and send out 100 million messages,” Gmail spam czar Brad Taylor says. “It takes only 30 Viagra orders to pay for that.”
And since there will always be suckers out there, the spam invasion will never stop—no matter what protective measures you take. Spammers will get your inbox’s coordinates if your email appears anywhere on the Web. If you don’t lock down your social network’s privacy settings, they’ll find you.
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