We’ll buy smut if you send us the spam

Spammers get more response from smutty emails than any other form of junk email.

While penis pill offers and pharmacy drugs continue to bring in a small percentage of punters, as many as one in 20 recipients visit porno websites after receiving lewd come-ons by email. Response rates for pharmacy drugs (0.02 per cent) and “Rolex watch offers (0.0075 per cent) are miniscule by comparison, according to a study by email filtering firm CipherTrust. The sales to click-through ratio for pharmacy drugs is one to 150.

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April 27, 2006 at 8:44 pm · Filed under ,




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