&gt;Is spamming that lucrative or what&#x27;s going on?<p>Yes, it is. There&#x27;s not that many programming jobs where you can easily make 500k+ a year.<p>For example, if you&#x27;re phishing for credit cards with VBV info you might very well get $20 or more per card when selling in bulk (or twice that if you aren&#x27;t). 10000 emails takes a couple of minutes to send and if you get a 1% success rate that&#x27;s $2000