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Stupid Experiment Watch: 50 Volunteer to be Spammies

Stupid Experiment Watch: 50 Volunteer to be Spammies

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Chief Marketer Staff

From the complete-waste-of-time file comes news that Internet security firm McAfee has convinced 50 people to spend a month clicking on pop-ups, signing up for promotions and responding to spam e-mail on computers with no filters installed.

Participants from Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States have all been provided with clean laptops and new e-mail addresses.

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