Spam - Any takers?

[Buenchico]

I'm not really sure where this question belongs but, since it involves 'goods & services', I suppose 'Shopping' might be OK:

Spam. We all get it. We all hate it. But there's only one reason why people send it - because, eventually, they expect to get someone to take up whatever offer is being made.

Now, I know that a 'hit rate' of one person in ten thousand (or even much lower) might be sufficient for the spammers to operate at a profit but it still seems that there ought to be some people around who've actually orderd the goods or services on offer.

So, why is it I've never met anyone who admits to following up a spammed invitation? OK, in the old days, the only spam messages I got were either from people who claimed that they could enlarge a certain part of my male anatomy, or from others who claimed that the same part of my anatomy would enlarge itself automatically if I looked at the pictures on their website :-) I can understand why people might be a little coy about admitting that they'd followed these links!

These days, however, most spam seems to be associated with finance or fake watches. Someone, somewhere, must be following these links. Is any ABer prepared to admit to it and, if so, what was the result?

Chris