Oh … my … god. We finally found the list of idiots who respond to spam. And it’s for sale for $5,000!
A source who asked not to be named sent us an e-mail last week containing the following:
“BlueStream is stepping away from e-mail, therefore the BlueStream database is for sale. The records for sale are full data records, which BlueStream has been acquiring through coreg sources since 2001. There are 3,194,462 unique openers and 1,098,909 unique clickers. Attached is a PDF of those unique openers and clickers, broken down by behavioral interests, and domains. The asking price of the data is $5K. Samples available upon request.
“Contact: Chris @ 916.439.6938 or Chris@bsmsales.com.”
According to the attached file, among the categories that drew the most clicks were “freebies,” “real estate,” “online education,” “opportunity seekers,” “ink products,” “software,” “printers,” “multilevel marketing,” and, of course “male enhancement.” These are classic spam categories.
And these are some active little clickers. According to Chris’s file description, “male enhancement” drew 112,857 clicks. We know Chris wouldn’t lie to us.
We have been advocating putting the idiots who respond to spam on one disk—called the Darwin Disk because they should be removed from the Internet’s e-mail gene pool—for years.
This way, spammers could avoid polluting the Internet, but still make their money duping the barnyard morons on the Darwin Disk.
And now, it turns out someone has created the disk for us!
Please, by all means, call Chris. We’re certain he’s reputable.
