what is spam?

Question

How one can send spam to others? Also, i heard that doing business using spam is illegal. What it mean?

Answer 1

People send spam generally with bots that sign up to heaps of email address and send there product to you. Yes it is illgal and they have government sites which to report it to.

Answer 2

spam
E-mail that is not requested. Also known as "unsolicited commercial e-mail" (UCE), "unsolicited bulk e-mail" (UBE), "gray mail" and just plain "junk mail," the term is both a noun (the e-mail message) and a verb (to send it). Spam is used to advertise products or to broadcast some political or social commentary.

The term was supposedly coined from a Monty Python comedy sketch in the early 1970s, in which every item on a restaurant menu contained SPAM, and there was nothing a customer could do to get a meal without it. The sketch was derived from the fact that in England during World War II, SPAM (Hormel's processed meat) was abundantly available while other foods were rationed. Many believe spam is an acronym for "sales promotional advertising mail" or "simultaneously posted advertising message."


A Social Plague

Like viruses, spam has become a scourge on the Internet as hundreds of millions of unwanted messages are transmitted daily to almost every e-mail recipient as well as to newsgroups. Unfortunately for users and fortunately for spammers, as an advertising medium, spam does produce results. Even if only an infinitesimal number of users reply, it is still cost effective since e-mail is a very inexpensive way to reach people.


ISPs Work Overtime

In order to alleviate some spam, ISPs have added an enormous number of servers doing nothing more than spam filtering (see spam filter). The CAN-SPAM act in the U.S. became law on January 1, 2004, which provides severe penalties for spammers, if they can be located (see CAN-SPAM). See SPIM, SPIT, mail bomb, Joe Job, SPF, letter bomb, spamdexing, Blacklist of Internet Advertisers, munging, RBL, ROKSO, MAPS, spam relay, spam trap, botnet, rogue site and opt-in.

Why Do They Do It?
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.


Spam Filters Create More Spam

As spam filtering becomes more sophisticated, spammers have to send even more spam to make the same money, but e-mail lists can be purchased for very little or hijacked. There is a thriving business selling e-mail lists to spammers as well as lists of compromised computers (see zombie). There are even third-party spam service providers that will do all the work for you.


Easy to Rationalize

Spammers justify their existence by citing the enormous amount of unsolicited ads we get via the postal system, which wastes trees and other resources. They claim advertisers pollute the environment every day with obnoxious ads on TV, radio, buses and billboards. Of course, they have a point, especially regarding the tons of paper thrown in the "real" trash can every day. However, none of these other approaches threaten to close down the system they live in.

Answer 3

E-mail spam is a subset of spam that involves sending nearly identical messages to a few or thousands (or millions) of recipients by E-mail. Perpetrators of such spam ("spammers") often harvest addresses of prospective recipients from Usenet postings or from web pages, obtain them from databases, or simply guess them by using common names and domains. By popular definition, a spam message is an unwanted email that is sent without the permission of the recipient.

Legality

Sending spam violates the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) of almost all Internet Service Providers, and can lead to the termination of the sender's account. Many jurisdictions, such as the United States of America, which regulates via the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, regard spamming as a crime or as an actionable tort.

Article 13 of the European Union Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications (2002/58/EC) provides that the EU member states shall take appropriate measures to ensure that unsolicited communications for the purposes of direct marketing are not allowed either without the consent of the subscribers concerned or in respect of subscribers who do not wish to receive these communications, the choice between these options to be determined by national legislation.

In Australia, the relevant legislation is the Spam Act 2003 which covers some types of e-mail and phone spam.

Accessing privately owned computer resources without the owner's permission counts as illegal under computer crime statutes in most nations. Deliberate spreading of computer viruses is also illegal in the United States and elsewhere.

Thus, some of spammers most common behaviors are criminal quite independently of the legal status of spamming per se. Even before the advent of laws specifically banning or regulating spamming, spammers have been successfully prosecuted under computer fraud and abuse laws for wrongfully using others' computers.

Answer 4

Spam is unwanted mail message
if i have some organization and want to promote my bussines for free i will find some spam program and send mails to everyone so maybe someone will se my email and by my product
YES,spam is illegal because noone want to expose own privacy and mail is private thing
it`s illegal because spam abuse people ,annoying them .
You can send spam with advanced mail bomber,massmail sender etc.

Answer 5

People who have learned enough programming to bypass the rules of engagement, and send thousands of e-mail with one keystroke

I got the same e-mail 5 times from 5 "different" people all heading to the same site -
and if you 'reply' to their e-mail addresses - they are already gone a minute after the e-mail is sent - daemon failure - cannot deliver

I would love to fry their hard drives - no you do not want to spam

Answer 6

spam is a virus which comes with ads given on websites.it copy users data and send it the owner of spam

Answer 7

Potted Meat.

Answer 8

It is an unwanted mail messages.

Answer 9

it stands for squirrels possoms and mice