|
|
[description], Story, any other text you want to use.
The 4 Ws of Junk E-mail
by: Niall Roche
Junk e-mail or spam has become the scourge of the modern computer world. It eats bandwidth. Spam is like a disease. It doesn't care about age, religion, wealth. It doesn't discriminate. Junk e-mail affects us all.
There are 4 keys to the junk mail question – Who, What, Where and Why.
Who they are
The typical profile of a junk mail sender is as follows. Male, 18 – 30 years of age, single, technically competent and with little regard for their status as a public nuisance. There are female junk mailers out there but, unfortunately, this is predominantly a male preserve.
What they use to send spam
There are many tools available to the spam merchant. The main ones are e-mail extractors, newsgroup harvesters and CD lists.
E-mail extractors are programs which wander around the Internet gathering e-mail addresses from websites and often from web based forums (unprotected forums). A "good" e-mail extractor can gather 15,000 e-mail addresses per hour.
Newsgroup harvesters are programs which search through newsgroups for valid e-mail addresses. Most newsgroups users are aware of this and take measures to counteract these harvesting programs. Despite these measures a newsgroup harvester application can gather 20,000 – 30,000 e-mail addresses in an hour.
CD lists are one of the worst sources. 90 million e-mail addresses available on a single CD for as little as $20. A lot of the addresses on these CDs would be junk (many would no longer exist) but an equally large number of these addresses would be valid. A CD like this is a junk mailers dream.
Where they do it from
Those involved in sending out bulk e-mail are "entrepreneurs" or at least they think so. The vast majority of those involved in the spam business are self-employed and work from home. Sending spam is almost the ideal home based business. You name your hours and the business itself is almost automatic. Maximum gain from minimum effort.
Why they do it in the first place
Their motivation is money. Considerable amounts of cash actually. Each spammer who sends out 1,000,000 junk e-mails is certain of approximately 100 sales. Many of the products they sell are worth $50 - $100 dollars to them in commission. Yes. Shocking isn't it? The average bulk mailer earns in excess of $100,000 per year! Maximum return for minimum effort. Unless of course you get caught and get jail time.
radio internet
Everything you wanted to know about radio internet
So you’re looking for valuable information about radio internet, well you’ve come to the right place. Although our site may not contain all the information you may be looking for on radio internet I think you’ll find the links below will provide more than enough information.
Our team of internet market researcher’s have spent months researching radio internet for you and have come up with the best sites available on the net to date. So why wait? click on the links above to find out all about radio internet.
The internet is growing at an enormous rate these days and all the information on radio internet that’s out there can take a long time to sift through. It took a long time, and a lot of hard work, for us to go through every information source about radio internet and pick out just a couple of the very best sites for you to visit.
We trust that you'll find our judgement sound. Like you we're very interested in radio internet, which is why we wrote this page about it. Right now I guess you should click on one of the links or zoom straight to the radio internet site that probably popped up when you entered this page. Thanks for visiting here.
Broadcast On the Net Index
|
Main Menu
Broadcast On the Net
Site Map
Affiliate Ads, Links, news, etc.
News for 18-Jul-10 Source: BBC News - Home Proms to begin with Mahler epic Source: BBC News - Home A theatre where every show is a sell-out Source: BBC News - Home Are ageing lefties in denial? Source: BBC News - Home Mandela's legacy Source: BBC News - Home OSCE agrees Kyrgyz police mission Source: BBC News - Home Warning on packaged bank accounts Source: BBC News - Home Solar plane flies for seven days Source: BBC News - Home 'I was attacked by Yorkshire Ripper' Source: BBC News - Home Zimbabwe gets diamond agreement Source: BBC News - Home World Cup fans' HIV risk warning
Links
Links
Links
|