Ever wonder who buys that stuff that gets peddled by spammers?

TechRadar reports that a recent study conducted by joint teams from the University of California, Berkley and San Diego found that it takes a staggering 12,500,000 spam emails to get a single response.  The team infiltrated the “Storm network“, which consists of tens-of-thousands of highjacked PC’s around the globe relaying the spam we all receive.

“Well.  Now you know.  One gullible idiot in 12,500,000 recipients. Or thereabouts.”

The paper further states that only 28 sales resulted from a 26 day, 350 million email campaign.  Amazingly, the spammers still make lots of money.

“Yet even with this apparently abysmal response rate of less than 0.00001 per cent, the researchers still estimate that the controllers of a network the size of Storm are still bringing in about $7,000 (£4,430) a day or $3.5m (£2.21m) over a year. “

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