What’s the success rate of Facebook spam?

Facebook spam (erroneously called scams) has been making headlines recently…And with all the attention on "virally spreading" links, we wondered, just how effective is it? What's the conversion rate? Links spread virally — but so what? That's only one step in the process. How many people actually fill out the CPA surveys that make the money?Here's one recent example of spam attempting to use English football player Peter Crouch as bait.Only 269 "likes" — doesn't seem that interesting…But wait, what's that in the bottom right hand corner? A counter of some sort?Indeed, this particular spammer is using a statistics site called http://whos.amung.us.Here's the dashboard view for the football spam:The most action that this spam managed was 208 hits in one hour.Here's another, more popular spam about an unlucky McDonald's Happy Meal:This spam uses bit.ly links to spread itself on Facebook.The links lead to http://happytruthblog.co.cc and there are just over 32,000 clicks. The stats also show the number (continue reading...)