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Q:Are antispam laws and better filters succeeding?
A:Yes, they are. Today, big ISPs block e-mail from suspicious sources. They filter out spam based on e-mail addresses, words, links in the e-mail, pictures, or anything. But the better filters get, the more determined we will get. It's not as if spammers really want to break the law. It's just that we are looking for any edge possible to get past the filter.
Q:So why are you still involved in the spam business at all, if it's becoming both riskier and less profitable?
A:For me, it's what I know how to do. And I just would hate to give up. It's like admitting defeat.
Q:How does the future of spamming look to you?
A:Not good. The capital investment in computers and software required to make it worth the risk is enormous. A lot of people younger than me are spamming. But for a lot of people like myself, it's no longer easy money. We are throwing in the towel.
Q:So you are seeing a changing of the spam guard, so to speak?
A:Spammers today are diverse. They work with adware; they control botnets of computers; they are virus writers. Today's spammers don't just want to sell you Viagra; they want to trick you into handing over your credit card number, or infect your system and turn it into a zombie.
Q:Will spam ever go away?
A:Spam will never go away. If nobody was really interested in spam and people never bought anything that was advertised to them, spam would go away. That's simply not the case.
