The Beef of Spam

Something that really gets on everybody’s nerves is spam email. According to internetslang.com the definition of spam is unsolicited e-mail. Maria checks her email frequently and she has received spam mail from a Viagra company. How do these companies get your email address in the first place? Spammers collect your email from chat rooms, websites, customer lists, newsgroups, and from viruses. Then they can send you spam from all sorts of companies. Pharmacies, drug companies, send out 81% of all spam. Replica companies send out 5.40%. Enhancer companies, companies that sell drugs to enhance body parts, send out 2.30% of mail. Phishing spam involves hackers that imitate banks, fake websites, and other organizations send out 2.30% of all spam. College degrees accumulate 1.30% of all spam. Casino spam 1%, weight loss is 0.40%, and all other spam is 6.30%. Spam mail can cause viruses and worms to infect your computers. In the United States spammers have to follow certain rules to be legal. The information they get has to be truthful, and it can’t forged information. But how much do these companies really get out of spam mail? Most people do not really pay attention to it. A lot of spam emails have a way to unsubscribe from receiving future contact from the companies. It is not a good idea to unsubscribe from the companies because in a study it was found that 16% of companies will continue to contact you.