The Best Spam Is No Spam
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Why am I getting all this spam? In a word - money. It all comes down to money. Why would anyone go to the trouble of sending out millions of spam e-mail for any other reason? It's about the money. Who exactly is sending out all the spam? The answer to that is a bit more complicated.
Legitimate businesses, through negligence, send out a small portion of spam. The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) created the Can-Spam Act of 2003. Some businesses either don't understand or don't follow the rules laid down. The overwhelming majority of spam however, that gets sent daily comes from criminals. This spam falls into four categories.
Infection Attempts - the idea here is to provide links and attachments in the e-mails. Clicking on the attachment will get you infected. Likewise the links will lead you to a website that will also infect your computer. The bad guys have thousands of clever ways to fool you or entice you to click on a link - any link. And the minute you do you're infected. Then your sensitive information is up for grabs. They may even attempt to control your computer remotely - to send out more spam.
Sales Attempts - The products are often drugs, jewelry or some type of body enhancement product. The prices are unbelievably low - for good reason. Many of these e-mails are simply a scam - there are no products. The rest are shoddy quality or altogether fake
Phishing - these e-mails attempt to fool you into divulging sensitive information. They appear to come from legitimate organizations. If the criminals can trick you into giving up this information they can steal usernames, passwords, and often your money.
Scam Attempts - these e-mails are an effort by criminals to begin a conversation. They attempt to do this by spinning a story that hooks you with curiosity, greed, compassion or other emotion. Once the conversation begins, they will spin more stories, and use promises, threats or anything else to convince you to send them money for one cause or another.
The bottom line is that it's all about money. The fact is that these criminals are using our computers to send billions of spam messages a day. It really doesn't cost much more to send to send10 billion per day than it costs to send 1 billion. So the question from the spammers point of view is 'Why not?" If they get a response of 1/10th of 1% on 1 billion spam then for very little extra cost or effort, they can multiply their profit 10 times by simply sending more spam.
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