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graemepyesterday at 1:23 PM1 replyview on HN

You need a very low success rate to make spam pay though. If someone does pay $1,200 it covers a lot of emails sent.


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blacksmith_tbyesterday at 3:29 PM

Certainly true, but the fact that sending spam is cheap doesn't buy the scammers groceries. If they don't squeeze a steady trickle of money out of victims it seems like it would be hard for them to continue.