Who the heck is making and sending all that junk email/spam anyway!?

Don't those people have a life and any self-dignity? Who are these people spreading this crap all over the place?

Who the heck is making and sending all that junk email/spam anyway!?
Individual corporations sending out marketing emails are such a small portion of the spam, that they are almost not worth your time. Most legitimate corporations will remove your email from their list... people just don't bother to get themselves removed because with all the other spam, it doesn't make a lot of difference. There is also the possibility that asking for removal actually verifies your email address, making it more valuable, and more prone to spam because now they know it's a real person. Again, most legitimate corporations are doing responsible email marketing campaigns, and will remove you.





There's probably only 3 large organizations responsible for most of the really bad spam. And they are AMERICANS. Spam is sent out mostly by "botnets", and it doesn't require a lot of work to spam a billion people. That's why spamming is such a big deal thing... because it's easy for one person to abuse the entire internet.





And yes, the people do have a life... they have nice cars and summer homes and so on, and spamming is their business and it does make money. And WE are the problem. If users continue to respond to spam messages, then these jerks will have their nice cars and summer homes for a long time. These guys are organized criminals, whose "crime" isn't actually illegal. They are not to be messed with. One large network was taken out a while back because the owner murdered one of his competitors and is now in jail. It's serious business.





Type your question into Google. Obviously this is one of the biggest problems facing internet users, so there's a ton of information about this question.
Reply:Junk mail is something we all get annoyed of but eventually realize that it wont go away so don't loose any sleep over it





You have to realize that everybody gets them, there are databases containing hundreds and thousands of email addresses.





When i first signed on as a user to hotmail I never got any junkmail but as I started subscribing to websites, newsletters and all that rubbish, I got more and more junk mail so there is definitely a connection there somewhere.





Spam control is built in most email services nowadays. In hotmail you can mark junkmail as junk and it will go straight t the junk folder in the future so you wont have to see it anymore. In yahoo there is a spam button which you can use to indicate what mails are junk and similar mails will be treated as junk in the future hence you wont see it ever again.





Don't sweat it too much, plenty more to worry about in this world than this
Reply:Online pharmy's, fake watch sellers, Nigerian scammers, stock market crooks......





in other words......thieves.
Reply:sadly - no!





most of the spam is generated from china. but this does not mean that the spam generated from there is in chinese or related to china. most of today's developed nations have put strict checks to curb spam and that is why spam too is now being outsourced to destinations where such activities have a less stringent control - china for example.





the spam 'industry' is in itself a million-dollar industry that also caters to swindlers and hackers! its not a certain group though the beneficiaries might be limited.





never reply to any spam message - it only encourages them to send more. report spam immediately in your inbox.
Reply:I think you are right, no life, no job, computer knowledge well enough to know how to crash everyones hard work and dedication.
Reply:Well, I'm a pretty laid back guy, but my 16 year old kid brother is kind of a conspiracist (However that's spelled.)





He says the anti-virus companies make spam and viruses. What better way to pull in buyers? First spread the disease, then sell the cure.





I'm not saying THAT'S how it is, but you never know...
Reply:Yeah Really they don"t have a Life------!
Reply:Bots.... setup by affiliates for different websites. They get $$ if you visit the site. So they get these massive email lists and have bots send out junk mail to as many people as possible. More emails sent = more links visited = more $$$. Just block the sender. Most of the time the same person is sending you many many different spam messages from just a handful of email accts.
Reply:For many it's just a job and as long as big corporation keep sucking the life out of the working man, you'll get more spam and junk.
Reply:You can think like that, but in reality, they are making money of that. What is spam? It's just commercials like the one we watch on TV. People and companys advertise their products and services. Spammer philosophy is like this: if he sends 50.000 emails, and at least 1% click on link in their email and buy something, that's 500 people! And they send much, much more emails because it does not cost them almost nothing. Acctually, they have to pay programs that collects emails from web-pages, program that sends big amount of emails, mail servers, but that's notnihg comparing to profit they make. Also they trade between each other with email databases (databases with10 or 50 or 100.000 emails), not all of them are working addresses, but if half is - it's good.
Reply:Hackers who want to use your computer and several thousands of other computers to jam corporate networks to the highest bidder. It's all about money.
Reply:Mostly advertisers who want to generate sales in their site. Email spamming is the cheapest form of advertising medium they have.

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