Globalization meets Spam
Cheap PCs could herald a spam epidemic
Outsourcing isn’t good only for software companies who keep an eye on the bottom line; it’s also great news for blog spammers, 419 scammers, and pump-and-dump stock operations. That’s because the same market forces that make developers in India and Eastern Europe such a good deal to American and Western European firms also make it easy for miscreants to hire legions of cheap workers to help with spam operations.
