It’s Pink Contract!
Arrrhh! Junk emails are very irksome! No doubt. I recognize that the lifeblood of the spammers is email. To stay in “business”, they need to be able to send lots of it on an ongoing basis. High profile spammer even capable of sending 80 million pieces of junk emails every single day. Can you imagine? One single person can make users all over the world feel upside-down and want to puke when seeing their inboxes.
In spite of ISPs all over the online world have vowed to stop spammers sending such vast amount of emails through their mail servers, all the end user sees is that the spam keeps imminent. Is it because they did not keep their word? Maybe. Still, the fact shows that there is a loophole there somewhere called pink contract, and shamefully, no one can really do the cleaning service’s job.
Pink contract really exists in the internet. The term pink contract comes from the color of the famous tinned meat that junk email gets its name from. It is simply a business agreement between the ISP and the spammer, which the spammer agrees to pay the ISP to turn a blind eye to the junk email passing through their mail servers.
Bad business for the ISP, huh? Well the answer is both Yes and No. Yes, it is bad news for the people who receive the junk email; and No, it is good news for the ISPs bank balance. A monthly pink contract can pay the ISP amounts from $10,000 upwards. Bear in mind that the average work-at-home spammer gains $100,000 net per year. The bigger junk email vendors even earn $200,000 - $400,000 per month.
Is the CanSpam Act 2003 going to make a difference? Sure. Any ISP in the United States can get in staid trouble for signing pink contracts. The foremost problem is that there is a whole big world wide web out there and the enormous majority of pink contracts are signed with overseas ISPs where US authorities have no jurisdiction, such as China and Russia.
Look, spam is a huge problem that is finally being taken seriously by Governmental bodies. However, until they start grand prison sentences or seizure orders on those individuals and companies in the pink contract business, the problem can only continue.
Sigh …!
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