Do people really buy from spammers? Yes.

We all get spam. In fact, most of us get so much spam that that nuemrous technologies have sprung up to try and replace it. IM, social networking, texting, etc are all just variations on email. The real question is why would anyone buy from a spammer. Do they really think that they're going to get good top notch products and services from a spam message? It turns out that they do.

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