Stopping Spam

Spammers are in it for the money. So they send spam. The thing is....for anyone to profit from the spam there has to be somewhere to go to spend the money. Either a website, email address, phone number, etc. Someone has to collect some money. I'm not understanding why the spammer can't be caught. To stay in business (to keep sending spam) there has to be some money made by the spammer. Or he would quit doing it. And there has to be a transaction by someone, somewhere. There's the arrest. There's the link. What's the problem?

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