Why do people send spam?

Answer 1

Here is a quote, from what I got after typing "spam" in the answers.com search engine: "Simple math. Suppose that out of 2,000 spam messages, one person clicks the link, and the spammer makes $1. If a million spams were sent that day, the spammer made $500, and the job might have taken a half hour to set up. That means only a few hours per week could yield $100,000 a year. Is that incentive enough for high-school students, or would they rather go back to their paper routes? Of course, consistent revenues are not guaranteed, but some spammers make a whole lot more than $100,000 every year. In any case, there is ample motivation." In other words, some people, who get this spam DO check it out.

Answer 2

Because that stuff gets really and i mean REALLY annoying... After some time. Also it takes up extra space, instead of spam in that space could be something useful. I could write more, but you got the idea i guess.

Answer 3

Spam emails are sent to reach as many people as possible.

The idea is that if 10% of people who see the information click the link, the more people who receive the email the better. If a message goes to 10 people, only 1 person reads it. If the message goes to 100 people, 10 people read it and that's more interest.

Answer 4

they think they're advertising their business, but really everyone deletes it. Do what i do, just email back and say something like

"thanks but really, no thanks!" or "i have a air conditioner!" of course you could always just save it all up, from all the different spammers and forward all of it to each of them : )

Answer 5

Because people want to sell you stuff-nothing more.

Answer 6

Different companies want you to buy there products so they send you mail.