Fighting Spam Pays Better Than Sending It
 

Interesting figures...


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...=/cmp/16401194

There's money to be made fighting spam--more money than even spammers see on their bottom lines, a research firm said Monday

According to estimates by Ferris Research, which tracks the messaging market, revenue for vendors selling anti-spam products will be approximately $130 million in 2003 and soar 200% in 2004 to a whopping $360 million.

That's substantially more than the senders of spam see in revenue, much less profit. Revenue generated by spammers in 2003 will be roughly $130 million, said David Ferris, head of Ferris Research, while their profit during the year will range from $20 million to $30 million.

Not to mention the private class action law suits against spammers can yield $$$ in the hands of the right attorneys.

Indeed. I am just so sick of spam...and I am a pretty tolerant person.

just for shits and grins, on my msn email account I have had for years and years after they changed the layout this week, my junk mail folder is virtually empty on a daily basis. Maybe coincidence or they stepped some shit up over there. Its mainstream fuckin relax with the comments, just thought it was a welcome relief

I would have thought the profit figure would be a lot higher than that.

Yeah...those #'s are all guesses. I think more and more people are getting hip to the spam techniques.

But we've all seen spammers that make major bank, so who knows...

well thats kind of a deceptive argument as most of the spammers are selling the spam blockers :)

Havent you noticed that alot . When xp first came out and nobody knew how to turn of winows messaging , thats all they sold was " click here to stop this message from popping up " then it went to a site.

I use Spamarrest.com and when it sends the email to the people who mailed me for them to verify that they are a 'live' person it has my partner code in it incase they want to get info on Spamarrest.

I stopped all the spam and get a healthy check once a month from people signing up. It appears that even spammers want their own spam to stop. :thumbsup

54% of daily spam comes from America...

Hahahh Yea right ... these research morons did their homework it seems!

They have no clue how much the world makes with spam.
My guess would be about 50 Billion Yearly.

that articles, as always... is totally incorrect...

i know at least 5 spammers who make more than 1 million dollars per year PROFIT... and i seriously doubt these 5 people account for 25% of the spam on the net haha

morons:) Always funny when people speak about stuff they don't comprehend! Numbers are way off... and I would not be surprised that 75% from the anti-spam income is generated by spammers themselves:thumbsup