Spammers Still Make Big Bucks
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A report indicated that only ONE in 12.5 million junk mails usually end up as a SALE. But while this is relatively a small percentage, spammers make a lot of money out of annoying other people with their junk mails. Recently, researches have hacked themselves into a network of zombie PCs, actually controlled by the hackers, the network is called the ‘Storm’. Their intention was to keep track of the actual users that respond to the spam sent through emails and to monitor how much that particular campaign makes. They spent twenty six days attracting the infected pc’s users to a hoax pharmacy that promises to sell them fully guaranteed libido enhancer. The researchers sent a staggering 350 million messages. But they only got 28 response that was translated into a SALE. Overall, when they did the math, they came with $2 million a year stolen money from just about a million PCs at a given time.