"With an unlimited dial-up account, they can send a few million messages for $20. If they are selling a widget or Viagra, the odds are that they will never deliver anything anyway -- all they want is a credit card or a check... If they send out a million messages and only get one response, they've still made their money back plus a bit of profit ... and if you look at a million people, you'll always find one bone-dumb idiot to send off a credit card number."
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