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by Worzel on February 27th, 2008
There's always a fool who will bite, and enough fools generate cash :o)
by csimme01 and Ninja Cooper UNMASKED on February 28th, 2008
It's just a numbers game. With a good list and software anyone can send out literally millions of email messages for a very small amount of money. If you sell a product that costs 50 bucks you may only need to get 20 or 30 sales to pay for your "advertising" and in a business advertising is a tax write off.
by Starmaster on February 28th, 2008
It is hard to believe, but there are a lot of people out there who pay attention to spam, go to many of those sites, buy stuff and do all kinds of surfing. They are the ones feeding those jerks.
by Ezmama on February 28th, 2008
They dont have anything else to do, but get on your nerves and that is what they do to me.
by BigDaddyBS on February 27th, 2008
"Legit"? To marketers, yes. And there are those some might consider spammers that are "legit". If you opt-in to receive emails from them and/or their partners, you will probably receive product and service offers based on your sign-up info on the site - that's one of the reasons they ask for demographic info - and THAT you signed up on their site. (Games, certain types of forums, etc.)
Not all spammers are identity thieves. They make money for each email to which they send. That's why the unscrupulous ones will buy mailing lists from known spammers. They will ALSO SELL their mailing lists, thus making MORE money.
See http://www.orangefrogproductions.com/ofp2s_spam_home.shtml for more.
by chocolate monster has left the building on February 27th, 2008
At the risk of sounding totally blonde (ooops I am totally blonde!!!) whats a spammer? heard the term but not sure what it is
by sm00z on February 27th, 2008
The spammers are just your friendly neighborhood identity thieves. If you answer them, they will thank you for permitting them to take over your computer with all it's passwords, account accesses, and personal information.
by Barcaluv on February 27th, 2008
Some might be. They're hoping that old saying "There's a sucker born every minute" holds some truth to it.
by Anonymous on October 28th, 2009
As I understand it, spamming is based on the theory that if one sends millions of advertisements at very low cost even a tiny fraction of responses is profitable. This is why some people advocate imposing a very small per-message fee, thus making the spamming economically unviable. +5
by sevenoaksconsulting on February 4th, 2009
The Direct Marketing newsletter recently published a study conducted by two independent consultants who actually set up a test of spam emails, mimicking the spam emails for pharmaceutical and herbal products. They found that sending millions of emails resulted in five-digit sales from gullible people (they refunded everyone's money). Since it costs these creeps nothing to send the emails out, and policing it is nonexistent, they will keep doing it. If it generates sales, they will continue.
by kazzzy on March 9th, 2008
On one of my webhost's admin sites there is a chat box where lots of people post "come visit my site" and it is absolutely amazing to me how many people respond with "stop spamming, I visited your site and it sucks"... well the spammer won that one, they got a site visit they wanted!
by Patti jo on March 9th, 2008
I agree with you Zack , I get so much junk e-mail and phone calls that I had to get caller I.D. and I won't even answer the phone and click the Spam button on my e-mail , and know matter what I have tons more -- Great Question and No I think these are not legit businesses -- + 5
by AnonymousGirl on March 9th, 2008
"Why do spammers keep spamming when all it does is piss people off?"
I think that's the point.
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Yea. I guess the internet is a big ass place and there is bound to be a few fools in it. Thanks.:-)
by Zack on February 27th, 2008