Aug 04 2008
Why do people send spam?
This is a question I get asked nearly daily. So why do people send spam? I could answer this real fast and be done. Its simple, Money! That is the reason, plain and simple.
So the next question is, What?!?! Yes people buy the things being hocked by the spammers. If they didn’t and there was no money, then what would be the point of spamming?
Reasons..
The reasons people buy the things spammers are hocking is simple. Vanity, Men are Vane! Oh there I said it. Even more so then women. Notice that most spam is for either sexual dysfunction, or balding. I do not know of any women that are having trouble getting their P3N!S hard. But yes even when someone spells something wrong like that, men will buy it. It is the anonymity of the Internet that makes it so easy for men to buy the items being sold. So while you are at work today, look around, I’m sure you’ll see several men that have bought something from an email. Just speaking statistically there has to be someone buying.
“I don’t even have a penis why do they keep sending me penis pill spam!”
Because they are shooting in the dark, hoping that you have one! They don’t know for sure. This is how it works. Send to millions of address and hope that a small percent will buy the products being sold.
The math speaks..
A company sends out 1.5 Million emails, each one sent to an address they have bought or generated themselves. Now most of them are going to be stopped by some type of filter. Some are address that no longer exist. Out of all this 11,000 people click on a link in the email, and 6000 purchase the bottle of pills for $50. This is $300,000 dollars, maybe not good for you, but not to bad for me. This is a %0.4 turn around, and this is a good thing. Most get less. Most are only getting around %0.01. When thinking of this, also know that one botnet is sending out over 1 billion emails a day.
