Lots of spammers

[Midnight Rambler]

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Originally posted by birdmove

Don't see why they don't start prosecuting companies that do this. If they have a buisness and are using these tactics, then they can be gone after. These tactics are about as fraudgilant as you can get.

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Because they're not "companies". They're hackers in Bulgaria, Belarus, Nigeria, or China. They send out millions of these emails every day, and make their profit off the one-in-a-million who replies. It's all automated, no-effort work. My Gmail account was hacked (due, as I discovered, to a keystroke logger trojan on my computer), but Gmail keeps an access record that showed all they did was log on for a few seconds (from a Chinese IP address) to send out the spam. Didn't even download my mail, which could have been used for identity theft and a much bigger return (but with more effort and likelihood of getting caught).