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E-mail spammers make 7 grand a day. Why the hell are you working a day job when you could be filling peoples inboxes with penis enlargement ads? After years of receiving and deleting spam mail, Computer Scientist Chris Kanich wondered if spamming email really pays off. So he and a team of curious scientists hijacked a spammer’s botnet and found that yeah, spamming pays off – to the tune of $7000 per day. Here’s how a botnet works: You’re browsing around the internet, and for whatever reason, you get infected with a virus. It doesn’t do anything overt, not yet […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/51/51227.jpg