News You Can Bruise for 2001 November 8

I got spam offering ONE MILLION (presumably valid, and not randomly generated) Email Addresses for JUST $1. "Can you make one cent from each of theses names? If you can you have a profit of over $2,000,000.00". If I can make once cent from each name, how come the person who's selling me the names values them at 1/10000 of a cent each?