Drishtikone
Man, the world is full of losers!! You know those emails that Gmail, Yahoo, and MSN put into the Trash or Bulk folders?? There are people who actually go out to read ’em!! Yeah seriously. At least 5.6% of the world’s internet savvy generation is either desperate or just plain full of losers! In any case, it seems that out of the spam, there are folks who still have some success and the hierarchy is like this:
1. Porn 2. Pharmacy Drugs 3. Rolex Watches.
Sex sells. That’s the conclusion of the chief technology officer of CipherTrust, a company which sells services to companies to monitor incoming e-mail for threats and outgoing e-mail for company policy compliance.
An analysis by the company showed that spam messages promoting pornography are 280 times more likely to be opened than e-mails for pharmacy drugs. Porn’s click through rate was 5.6%, compared to .02% for drug deals, The New York Times reported. Pharmaceutical offers were second most-effective, followed by Rolex watch spam in third place with a click through rate of .0075%.
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