Why do spammers think we will buy their scams, dubious products and services, if they pose them as questions?

Asked by Yellowdog (12216

) April 20th, 2018

It didn’t stay up long—Fluther removed them quickly last night.

Someone with an inpronouncible and barely spellible username posed as a jelly—his question was a spiel about some international expansion for some business. And the climax, well, he wanted to know if (whatever he was pitching) is the “key to success in international markets”

The answer, also posing as a jelly, was the rest of his spiel.

It may sound like a rhetorical question, but do these people really believe, in their cubicals in inpronouncable places and impossible to understand or transact business with, are going to be coerced into buying their product or services? That they would have what we need and would respond / click on their links?

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They don’t care. In fact, in most cases, the spammer is not the merchant.

What usually happens is that someone (third party) is paid some small amount – maybe 10 cents per website to post crap like that. They work from home for an hour or two each dat and make a couple of dollars. Not a great salary, but for someone in India or Thailand or Philippines, it’s income.

The merchant contracts for, say, 1000 posting per week anywhere on the internet. The merchant pays $50.00 . SOme percentage of these will turn into sales, which makes it worthwhile.

So the spammer himself is just a piecework drone, and has no stake on whether the item sells or not.

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