More than 150 billion SPAM messages circulate daily, accounting for more than 85 percent of the total number of emails sent throughout the world.
The sheer volume of spam consumes an enormous amount of bandwidth and remains one of the Internet’s biggest security problems.
Often these goods are pirated, counterfeit, or cheap knock-offs that would be difficult to come by through the legitimate market.
And though you may not respond, you wonder why anybody would spend their hard earned money on this ‘crap’. You might be surprised.
According to new research by Internet security company Marshal, 29 percent of Internet users admitted to purchasing items from SPAM. Most of our readers who participated in the poll chose 7 percent and will probably be surprised by the double digit ‘winner’.
As long as the buyers are there, SPAM will be with us.
Photo by Hormel Foods.
Matt Helphrey on August 29th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
Thankfully I’m not guilty yet of buying anything spam related. Unless of course it is the wonderful Spam breakfast product … mmmm spam.
Matt
cassy on August 31st, 2008 at 1:09 am
one thing lots of people buy it coz its cheap…