What makes the spammer compete again and again against the phalanx of the latest anti-spam techniques , in order to laboriously smuggle a few e-mails past the filters into the mailbox of the increasingly vigilant e-mail user for a short period of time, who then sends them with a mouse click and unread and the trash? Why the effort?

In the meantime, in-depth technical knowledge, as well as an available botnet, are also necessary in order to be able to send unsolicited advertising e-mails in appreciably large quantities.

The motivation behind it is still the following:

Spam is (and remains) just pretty profitable.

On the one hand, this is due to the still relatively inexpensive distribution of advertising information, which usually also includes a convenient way to get in touch. On the other hand, there are still by far enough users who use such dubious offers or at least behave unfavorably in this regard.

Are we to blame ourselves?

According to the results of a study by the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG), more than half of Internet users (57%) have admitted to occasionally opening, forwarding, or clicking on URLs in spam emails. Approximately one in two of this group was fully aware that this was a dubious offer.

Regards

Hannes Wilhelm

WorNet AG
SecuMail^® Development