I read a superb report on the BBC regarding a raid on an massive internet spam gang.

Apparently a gang has been shut down and reports have been flying in stating that spam has pretty much immediately decreased by 70%, worldwide.

I fucking hate spam, and gladly welcomed this news, but unfortunately it seems without a conviction to put these people away they will simply move the networks to places with looser security.

Most of it is just an irritation because as soon as you get the email telling you you have won a fortune in a South African lottery, you delete it, and as such you might wonder why spammers actually bother at all when the majority of people identify it for the utter load of bollocks that it is.

That’s where this startling statistic comes in:

A recent study by computer scientists from the University of California, Berkeley and UC, San Diego (UCSD) found that spammers manage to turn a profit despite only getting one response to every 12.5 MILLION emails they send

Crikey.