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Correct - because the cost of the spam itself is negligible, but the cost of developing a prospective mark into cash-in-pocket is quite high in terms of time &
by gertrunde 5y ago
Correct - because the cost of the spam itself is negligible, but the cost of developing a prospective mark into cash-in-pocket is quite high in terms of time & resources.
The last thing the scammer wants is for the mark to back out after the scammer has invested resources into them, and before they have realised any gains.
Effectively, insufficiently gullible marks reduce their profit margins.
- maxwell86 5y agoI would like an email service where, when someone wants to send me an email, they have to first get some hash, e.g., "{hash}.myaccount@myprovider.com". Then, in order to get the hash, they have to paypal me 20 cents. If my attention is not worth 20 cents to them, then they should not be contacting me in the first place. Further replies to the same thread should be free for some period of time (e.g. a month or so).
- catern 5y agoRelated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
- BeetleB 5y agoA similar idea: http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-problem/ http://blog.nawaz.org/posts/2018/Sep/solving-my-email-proble... See discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100807
- teddyh 5y agohttps://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
- maxwell86 5y agoSo according to that list, my idea would work. According to the sibling comments, it does not only work, but some people are already using it in practice.