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August 14, 2007
Text Sells Sex, Pix Sell Stocks
I spotted some data today comparing the stuff being flogged via text-based email spam versus image-based spam. Only in the bizarro world of email spam would sex sell better via text, and stocks sell better via pictures.
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Actually, there's a rather prosaic reason for this -- the spammers who tend to use textual spamming techniques have more customers who want to sell drugs, while the spammers who use image spamming techniques have more customers who want to flog stocks.
99% of the spam you get is sent by a very small number of spam gangs, each of them sending on behalf of a small number of customers. This accounts for the massive variation in spam makeup, and week-on-week fluctuation.
Are the stock spam images of naked women?