LEESBURG, Virginia (AP) -- As one of the world's most prolific spammers, Jeremy Jaynes pumped out at least 10 million e-mails a day with the help of 16 high-speed lines, the kind of Internet capacity a 1,000-employee company would need.

Jaynes' business was remarkably lucrative; prosecutors say he grossed up to $750,000 per month. If you have an e-mail account, chances are Jaynes tried to get your attention, pitching software, pornography and work-at-home schemes.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/11/14/inside.spamming.ap/index.html

Don't know what his expenses were, but thats a pretty good income.

Originally posted by Dan Fussell
Don't know what his expenses were, but thats a pretty good income.

According to the article:

Relatively few people actually responded to Jaynes' pitches. In a typical month, prosecutors said during the trial, Jaynes might receive 10,000 to 17,000 credit card orders, thus making money on perhaps only one of every 30,000 e-mails he sent out.

But he earned $40 a pop, and the undertaking was so vast that Jaynes could still pull in $400,000 to $750,000 a month, while spending perhaps $50,000 on bandwidth and other overhead, McGuire said.

Prosecutors believe Jaynes had a net worth of up to $24 million,


They should throw away the key.

It just blows my mind that anyone at all buys anything from spam emails.

Way to play the system though, as gullible as some people probly are finding themselves out to be.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
It just blows my mind that anyone at all buys anything from spam emails.

Yeah, he was preying on the ignorant, the elderly, and shut-ins mostly I would guess.