On 29-Jun-2009, at 10:53, Kevin Parris wrote:
It is folly to underestimate the stupidity and/or gullibility of humans. Just because the link "won't work" as-is in the message does NOT mean people out there won't retype it, corrected, into their browser address box. It is my opinion that if the spammers weren't getting traffic to the websites from the email, they would stop sending the email. Since the emails continue, we must presume that they are having some success in attracting victims to the sites.
Sure, but I seriously doubt that they would replace characters to fix a URL. if I mistype a url www.example,com I generally get a not that the URL didn't work. It takes a certain level of geekness to see the typo and replace it with a '.'
-- I draw the line at 7 unreturned phone calls.
