Steve: It's a volume thing. It is fairly cheap to send out 10 or even 50 million spams, and if I get only 100 hits on my 'product' as a result, I have probably made a profit. It has taken me years to convince my sister and mother to stop replying to them, and stop resending the "interesting ones" (like those chain letters with a joke in them that are the means by which they gather valid emails...). Not less than two years ago we had to do an 'intervention' to get my sister out os sending money to a guy in Africa... And this was after it had been on the news... And she's a very smart educated individual who's even managed to become trilingual (which in this country (USA), takes work). I'm guessing they're just not telling me about it anymore... I tried blue frog out for a few weeks, right before I got that win Polipos virus, and as a result the spam on the email account I tried it on went up by a dramatic amount, and it still now gathering several hundred spams per day...

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