Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Hardly surprising when you consider that malware infected
spam can be used to distribute the Trojans that help build botnets,
which in turn can be used to send more spam. The vicious cycle is only
occasionally interrupted when a botnet is busted and a spam gang
arrested.
With the FBI suggesting that the going rate to
send a million spam messages is no more than USD $10, none of this
should come as any surprise at all.
“A common misconception is that ‘regular’ people don’t buy from spam"
Anstis explains, continuing "but, you have to consider the types of
products people are buying. It’s pirated software, knock-off watches,
counterfeit designer goods, cheap drugs and prescription medicines,
pornography and other adult material. The Internet provides convenience
and a degree of anonymity to people who want to buy illegal or
restricted goods. It is a black market and spam has become a
conventional means of advertising to a willing audience of millions of
people who are purchasing from spam.”
What is interesting is that this latest poll suggests people who
admitted to buying via spam have done so many times, making multiple
purchases. On average, it reveals, people buy more than two different
types of product. Maybe spam consumers are a habitual breed?
David Bass
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