My wife asked me tonight, “Does spam ever really work?” I was prepared to launch into a speech detailing that, “although it’s a statistically small amount, large numbers of spam are made to compensate,” when it hit me.

The problem with spam is that the less effective we make it, the more spammers have to send out.

Huh? Well, if spammers have a success rate of 2% and they send out 100 million emails with each successful email making $1, then they make $2,000,000. Now, let’s say someone comes along with a spam filter that lowers their success rate to 1% … suddenly 100 million emails only makes them half what it used to, and they have to send out an extra 100 million emails. And no matter how hard we try, they’re never going to have a 0% success rate.

The Solution?
Simple. Convince everyone you know to fall for the spammers scheme. The more people who fall for it, the higher their success rate goes. The higher the success rate … the less spam they have to send out.

You may wonder if they won’t simply send more spam out to make even more money. I’m willing to bet they won’t. The one thing you can trust about a spammer is that they want easy money. So, if you make their job easier, they aren’t going to work harder.

Want to prevent spam? Maybe you should consider buying some weight-loss pills. I’m sure you’ve already received an offer.