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Can anybody explain weight loss spam to me? Is it just to gain credit card details, advertising clicks?
by nwh 13y ago
Can anybody explain weight loss spam to me? Is it just to gain credit card details, advertising clicks?
- deweerdt 13y ago>Accounting for how much spam actually reaches the inbox, we estimate that only about 1 in 25,000 people needs to succumb to the temptation to make a grey-market purchase to make it pro table for spammers to inundate everyone with advertisements at current levels. http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/SpamEconomics.pdf http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/SpamEconomics.pdf
- lesterbuck 13y agoThanks for the link, that's a fascinating paper. One thing that drives me nuts about that paper format (a LaTEX template, I guess) is that it doesn't have a date. And this happens a lot. If the topic was an abstract mathematical concept, evergreen and timeless, then the date isn't so important. But a paper about spam that is vague on the date? I don't understand. That field is always changing, and I presume the economics are changing, too.
- graue 13y agoPublished in February 2012, revised in June 2012, according to this: http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/SpamEconomics.html http://www.davidreiley.com/papers/SpamEconomics.html
- PeterisP 13y agoThis is rather typical, because when you prepare a paper you don't yet know the publication date, so your submitted/final version can't include any date, but the published version tends to be behind a paywall.
- lost-theory 13y agohttp://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/07/how_one_weird_trick_conquered_the_internet_what_happens_when_you_click_on.html http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/07/how_...