ah the grilled spam sandwich one of life's Little Pleasures at least
According to some people anyway but while that weird canned meat product is
beloved by millions worldwide something that's not so lovable is email spam
which for years has clogged people's inboxes worse than real spam will clog
your arteries so why exactly is Spam so
prolific and what have we done to try and fight it well it probably isn't
surprising that people found ways to take advantage AG of a means of sending
the same message to tons of people electronically long before the
mainstream internet was invented the first spam message was actually sent all
the way back in 1978 over the old arpanet a US military
Network that was a predecessor to the modern internet although the sender was
promptly rebuked that technique sadly doesn't work today to stop spam spam
messages continued to proliferate through new news groups users who
sometimes people say named these sorts of messages spam after a famous Monty
Python sketch but it really exploded in the mid to late 1990s as more and more
people started using email anyone who's
ever sent a message to more than one person before knows how easy quick and
cheap it is to send the same message to a large number of people so easy in fact
that at one point it was estimated that over 90%
of email traffic was spam although more recent estimates have indicated that the
number is now closer to 50% still a ton of email and that's not
counting the spam that is popping up on places like say for example social
networking sites dating sites video sites and the infamous comment sections
of the aforementioned places but even though sending lots of emails is easy
how the heck do spammers get their hands on so many people's email addresses
often spammers will actually just test millions of random addresses that
contain dictionary words or common names and numbers to see which ones work or
they can use Bots to crawl the public web and look for email addresses that
people have posted in various places say for example on a forum dubious
advertisements can also lead people to malicious websites that convince them to
sign up for Stuff using an email address
which is then harvested after a spammer compiles a large list of working email
addresses they can actually make matters worse by not only emailing all those
people but by selling the list to other spammers and then suddenly you've got a
deluge of emails asking you to buy pills to enlarge a certain part of your
Anatomy say for example your nose but
lonus I just don't get why these people
send out spam at all doesn't everyone just delete spam and move on to the next
real email well almost everyone does the
response rate for spam messages is indeed extremely low so spammers use
tools such as dedicated servers and Bot
Nets of infected computers to send out as many pieces of spam as they possibly
can so even if only one in a million
people is gullible enough to believe they can buy a real Rolex for the price
of a cheeseburger it still leads to a pretty good siiz profit for the scammers
back to remember they're super cheap to send out so then how have we tried to
fight back against this crap valan of
junk mail well most of the popular email services today employ some kind of spam
filter which scans emails for suspicious words formatting and deceptive headers
the part of the email containing address information and checks emails against a
known black list of spam addresses to
keep that stuff from reaching your inbox numerous IES have also tried to
legislate against spammers as well and although these efforts haven't been
extraordinarily effective several more notorious spammers have served prison
time for defrauding people but with that
said perhaps the best thing you can do is watch who you're giving your email
address to unless that is to say you enjoy getting business propositions from
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