Re: [Asrg] hiring challenge responders

Dave Aronson wrote:
> Vernon Schryver <vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com> wrote:
> 
>  > Let's do some arithmetic.  At $10/hour and 10 seconds per challenge
>  > answered or account created, the cost would be about $0.03 address.
>  > That sounds a little but not very high to send mail until the
>  > challenge whitelist entry is deleted by the spam target.  It sounds
>  > low for a valid sender account that can be used for millions of
>  > messages for days until the free provider notices enough bounces
>  > or receives a complaint and terminates it.
> 
> Does anybody have any actual numbers on how good a return spammers get on 
> their spam, in terms of, say, cents per thousand spams?

They vary all over the map.  Betterly talked about making 5 $300 sales 
from a million spams.  One of the reported "takes" from the IRAQ playing 
cards spammer was on the order of $18 for several million spams.

Note that MSN's DAV system has had a 100/day limit for a long while. 
They appeared to implement the human test a week or so ago. (volume 
dropped off from about 20,000 per day to a handful).

A little bird talked about DAV abusers registering thousands of accounts 
at a time.

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