You severely and drastically underestimate the size of the "shady economy" on the Internet. I used to laugh a little 10 years ago even when people said spammin

You severely and drastically underestimate the size of the "shady economy" on the Internet. I used to laugh a little 10 years ago even when people said spamming couldn't be profitable. Spammer could e-mail the same million people every single day, and still get 8-12 $30 commissions every single time for months. Expand that to even a low rate of 50M e-mails/day and you can see how profitable it can be. And the "web spam" made the e-mail spam market look pretty much trivial in comparison - before you even get into the outright illegal stuff like hacking boxes and doing drive-by installs.