[X4U] re recent thread on paypal phishing emails

[Doug McNutt]

At 17:29 -0600 3/18/09, Jens Selvig wrote:
>But the spammers don't want to put any time into focusing their 
>message. They are relying entirely on a shotgun approach. So no one 
>ever looks at your particular email address. You are just one of 
>perhaps a hundred thousand email address the spammer has purchased/ 
>acquired/stolen. So in the end, the actual recipient is a tiny 
>insignificant item, unless you respond to the attempt. Then you have 
>provided them with a golden opportunity!


And they get paid for the messages sent. If there were a way to get 
paid for responses they'd work a whole lot differently.

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