The Economy of Spam
Michael Ilger, Jürgen Strauß, Wilfried Gansterer, Christian Proschinger · 2006
Although many different tools are already available which lessen the burden of spam, it sill remains a severe problem. A very promising solution for preventing outgoing spam starts at a different point. Spammers should be driven out of business by creating cost high enough to make their work unprofitable. In this report we try to show under which circumstances this goal can be reached and we present a tool for analyzing spammers ’ business models. 1