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110: Spam Botnets

Darknet Diaries

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The Relationship Between Affiliate Programs and Spammers

Aphiliat progams operate much like a business, and they're very interested in keeping their customers happy and satisfied. They want to scale their business to large millions of dollars, so it's not their interest to have dissatisfied customers. For a good spammer, this is a great deal. The more spam they send, the more money they can make. A hacker named google thought if he could control hundreds of different computers and send emales from them, then it would be harder for email providers to block that many ips. This is what one guy figured out while he was earning himself some money with glavmed and spam it. And he tried thinking of ways that he could

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