Spam barely pays, says spamalytics

With all that email that piles in for vi*gra and unlucky Nigerian princes, we assume that someone, somewhere, makes tons of money on it all. But some stealthy University of California researchers at Berkeley and San Diego concluded that spammers may be easier to thwart than we thought.

They tell the story in "Spamalytics: An Empirical Analysis of Spam Ma…