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Elsewhere: One in 12.5 million

  Talk about long odds. A recent study done under not-so-scrupulous terms showed that spam e-mail has about a one in 12.5 million chance of suckering the recipient into a sale. Jim Carrey’s character in “Dumb and Dumber” apparently isn’t the only one who would see possibility in those odds. Even returns that poor, given the volume […]