August 02, 2003
Meet the Spam Kings "Wading through hundreds of unwanted e-mails? Blame Scott Richter. He brags that his company fires off several hundred million e-mails every day, hawking everything from Viagra to aluminum siding. "We're in the top 10 in the world for sending e-mail," he says. Thanks in part to Richter's efforts, e-mail inboxes are getting more and more crowded. The various financial schemes, wacky offers, miracle cures, porn ads, and other unsolicited offers - often derided collectively as spam - accounted for less than 10 percent of all e-mail traffic two years ago, experts say."