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Does anyone know how much these 32 million verified and virgin email addresses will actually sell for in the spam underworld?

Totally guessing I'm thinking $0.50/1000 to $5/1000 for: $16,000 - $160,000. But I don't even know if I'm in the right ballpark.

I also assume you can resell these many times, so it could conceivably be worth hundreds of thousands.




This is more valuable than spam - you have passwords, which for most people are practically global. You also have their email addresses, which nowadays are basically the same thing as login.

You just opened the door to everything about these users.


I understand that. I remain very curious about the question I actually asked though.




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