Asgrim

Opening my inbox at work yet again revealing tens of spam e-mails in my junk e-mail folder got me thinking. Why does the “bad spam” still exist? By “bad spam”, I mean the extremely un-inventive stuff that is clearly spam, and is always picked up by Junk e-mail filters. E-mails with subjects such as:

• Your insatiable chick will be full of pleasure
• Improve your men’s health with WonderCum!
• Just Read What Our Satisfied Customers Say
• Disappointed with your sexual health?
• Bring back time when girls were yours.

And so on… the list is endless. I don’t see how anyone with at least half a brain cell (and no spam filter) would not simply take one look at the subject and delete it instantly. The people who send out these spams surely can’t get any profit out of it? Sure - if they were pay per click - they might make a miniscule amount of money by the people silly enough to open it and be interested in buying “Vi.agraa” at “in.sane.ly l00w prices”… but I don’t see how that would make any amount of money worth wasting all those bytes of bandwidth. I mean, in this day and age, people have to pay to use bandwidth! So perhaps back in the early-to-mid-nineties, it may have been more profitable. Bandwidth was cheaper and less of a commodity, and people hadn’t experienced spam e-mail to the levels it is reaching now (such as complex well-phrased phising e-mails, and other decieving spam), so perhaps thought it was genuine. But even a novice internet user must know stuff like the above is spam e-mail and not bother reading it?

Or perhaps I am underestimating the amount of really thick people in this world…