DISQUS

Tony · 8 months ago

That "month of work" is only a month of waiting for an account to mature. Sending emails and requesting search results is incredibly easy to automate, as it's all text. You might think that this will introduce a significantly larger barrier of entry for a new spammer, but what will end up happening is that instead of buying CAPTCHA entries, they'll begin to buy slightly aged emails/profiles. In bulk.

Alex · 8 months ago

Also, most spam comes from botnets - computers which are used by normal humans. So they would just start using their accounts to spam.