Wednesday, September 2, 2009

What's the problem with SPAM?

What’s the problem with Spam?
Do you like it when you are disturbed when you are surfing the web, or all those emails that you received by people trying to sell you something that you don’t particularly care about? How do these people get your information? Some spam comes from legitimate companies that are trying to sell their product, but it is a fact that most of the spam out there are scams. False advertisement in a form of an email can be created from any part of the world and can be sent to millions of people in seconds. An example is Lance Atkinson of Australia whose operation was shut down for being responsible for sending out over 2 billion internet spam messages all around the world. Pushing herbal branded pharmaceutical drugs that had false claims. In some cases the people who made the orders never received the product. False advertising comes with an empty package after giving these people your credit card information. Another problem with spam is that most of them carry viruses that can damage systems by stealing information, or just completely destroy operating systems. This is very dangerous when information is key in this day and age. Information controls our world today because what you don’t know can eventually destroy you.

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