From: "Clarice Sears" <XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX>
To: Webmaster <webmaster@conman.org>
Subject: We need your traffic
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 19:11:42 -0060
> ## We buy trafficWe buy iframe traffic
Earn $0.085 ($85.00/1000 installs) and more for each unique iframe installs You only put the short one line iframe code on your page(s) and start to **MAKE MONEY** WITHOUT any Active-X console or any pop-ups … It means that you will not lose your unique visitors with our iframe!
The best percentage of installs (10-40% from the total traff or it's **$4-$15 FOR 1000 UNIQUE VISITORS**)
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If I read this correctly, it's 8½¢ per impression for adding one line of HTML (HyperText Markup Language) to all of my pages. Using The Boston Diaries [1] (since it's its own domain) as a reference point—last month I had 75,466 hits which works out to $6,414.61!
Woot!
Oh wait a second … filter out the bad requests and I have 67,641 hits last month, which works out to $5,749.48.
Okay, I can deal with that—
Oh wait.
Remove hits from myself (to be fair), requests other than GETs, RSS (Really Simple Syndication) agregators and web spiders and now I'm only down to 3,301 views, which works out to $280.58.
Bummer.
There go my plans for early retirement.
Oh wait … what if I include all my sites?
35,287 visits … $2999.39?
35,000 visits? Still sounds a bit high to me, but in looking over the results, it's probably close enough. There may be something to this then …
Although, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is …
Just a few minutes ago I actually responded to this email asking for details, using the email address listed in the body of the message. Imaging my surprise when my message bounced back, saying that no such address existed.
Makes me wonder how they plan to actually rope people in on this scam.