[rglullis]

I don't know if you misunderstanding the argument is cynicism or stupidity.

> A large chunk of spammers would simply have to spend a small fraction of their current profits to maintain their profitable business

It is only "profitable" because they are playing a lottery game where each ticket is essentially worthless but with an actual zero cost. The expected value of this radically changes if the cost of rolling the dice is anything nonzero.

Phone scams is a 10 billion dollar industry in India, because it costs virtually nothing to call anyone in the US. Do you think that type of scam would be possible in the world 25 years ago when international calls where $0.10/minute and the scammers need to have an account at the phone company to enable them to make tens of thousands of minute-calls per day?

Also please do us both a favor: stop with the smart-ass responses and stop creating strawmen. It makes you look like an a pathetic juvenile loser who just refuses to argue in good faith.