I was never a spammer, but I worked a datacenter and had frank conversations with former customers who were terminated when they were found to be spamming on th

I was never a spammer, but I worked a datacenter and had frank conversations with former customers who were terminated when they were found to be spamming on the network. Yes. Yes it pays. Quit a lot and quite easily. Some quick figures. The average server purchased can send (extremely conservatively) 5-10 emails a second. If you assume that they will be caught within 48 hours after setup, that means that between 864,000 and 1,728,000 emails can be sent out in that time. Rough cost expended - $150 for server setup and $20 for an hour of your time setting it up (Most spammer I have come in contact with are not highly skilled, this hourly rate is my own guess if I would hire them). That means it costs about $1 to sent between 5,080-10,165 emails. The going response rate in my experience of talking to them is about 0.02%. Which means they are getting about one or two people for every dollar expended. Sell fake viagra for $5 a pop, you just turned a very nice profit. Again, all of these totals are low-end averages based on spammers I spoke with. They were not Leo Kuvayev or Alex Blood.