A compendium of words I used today in the search feature of my Wesleyan alumni account to find and delete spam:
Viagra/Cialis/Pfizer/Pills
Sex/Sexy
Large/Huge/Big/Size/Inches/Length
Russia/Russian
Software
Degree
Natural/Easy/Fast
Discount/Win/Offer
Luxury
Watches
Valentine
Debt
From 13,594 to 0 in half an hour flat! Some of them I could have guessed, but others like the software offers or online degree spam threw me off; maybe once you buy that grabbag of email addresses the best way to maximize your profits is to hawk anything you can think of.

As I've mentioned before, my cousin is a comp sci professor and this is the basis of some of his research. I understand that approximately no one has half an hour to watch a YouTube video of a guy talking about internet criminal economics and the online black market (did you know that spam botnet providers apparently have great customer support?), but if you DID have thirty spare minutes, and you WERE at all interested, this is the one to see:
And as a bonus, my favorite sender names:
Edmond Crabtree
Wanker Lahoma
Anastasia Blickem
Juanita Cotton
Weldon Childers
Brookskennedy Ricki
(I like to think that Brookskennedy is called Skenny for short.)













