What Is Spam?
Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. Most widely recognized form of spam is email spam.
Spam Mail also known as junk Mail
These spam Mail come only from spammers and never from a legitimate user or a company. These spammers send a single email to hundreds (some times thousands or millions) of email addresses at a time. They either send it manually or use spambots system to automate the process of spamming.
From where do SPAMmers get my email address?
Spammers E-mail addresses are collected from chatrooms, websites, newsgroups, and viruses which harvest users' address books, and are sold to other spammers. Much of spam is sent to invalid e-mail addresses. ISPs have attempted to recover the cost of spam through lawsuits against spammers, although they have been mostly unsuccessful in collecting damages despite winning in court Spam averages 94% of all e-mail sent.
Why do spammers SPAM?
Lots of Resion for spammers SPAM ButThe main goal of spammers is to send the spam (unsolicited bulk messages) to as many people as possible in order to make profit
For example, You Have a small website to sell an ebook which gives information about SEO. In order to make sales he needs publicity for his website. Instead of spending money on advertising, You decides to create an email which contains information about his site along with it’s link and send this email to say 100 email addresses in his contact list. If 1 person out of hundred buy this book john gets $10. What if he sends this email to 1000s of email addresses. He gets $100. Imagine, if he sends this email to 1 Million email addresses he gets $100000.
So I hope You understood the idea behind spamming.