Why do they keep sending me this garbage?
Spammers continually send email with different subjects and offers in order to entice users to buy their products. Many of these products are; fakes and knock-offs or potentially dangerous to the purchaser. Due to the low cost of sending spam, even with the extremely low response rate, spammers can make a significant profit fairly easily. The more emails a spammer can send, the greater his profit while the cost remains nearly zero.
Spammers rarely honor opt-out requests. It's work for them to process opt-outs, sending less spam doesn't cost them any less, and who knows, you might be one of the suckers who responds next time.
Where does spam come from? Why?
Unlike direct mail or telemarketing, email spam has very low per-message cost. In many cases spammers have almost no cost because they are sending email through other people's computers that are infected with a worm or virus, which causes others to bear the cost of their messaging. As a result, despite extremely low response rates, spammers can make a profit fairly easily. The more emails a spammer can send, the greater his profit while the cost remains nearly constant.
Welcome to CAUCE North America
CAUCE North America Debuts - New anti-spam advocacy group combines CAUCE
Canada and CAUCE US
Montreal and Los Angeles, June 06, 2007 -- Neil Schwartzman, chair of CAUCE
Canada, and Scott Hazen Mueller, chair of CAUCE U.S., today announced the
formation and launch of CAUCE North America to build upon the work of their
previously separate organizations.
CAUCE North America is now the premiere anti-spam advocacy group,
representing the interests of the millions of Internet users in North
America. The combined group will work towards equitable solutions for the
original threat posed by spam since the 20th century, and Spam 2.0, the
21st-century blended threat posed by the merging of spam, viruses, phishing
and malware.
"When we launched the original CAUCE, back in 1997," said Scott Hazen
Mueller, founder of CAUCE U.S. and now President of CAUCE North America,
"spam was an isolated problem and it was seen by many as unimportant. Now,
spam is part of a multi-pronged assault by various criminal organizations
attacking the very basis of trust on the Internet. If this threat is not
met soon, users will continue to migrate away from the Internet for their
commercial needs."
press contact: press@cauce.org
Tel . +1 303 800 6345
Spam has changed, and so must CAUCE
We were shocked, not so very many years ago, when AOL reported that spam was 30% of their incoming mail. Now, some of the world's largest ISPs report that it's well beyond 80% -- in some cases higher -- and increasing.
Back then we knew who the spammers were, they stayed in one place and thought of themselves as "high volume" email marketers -- but now, the leaders of the email marketing industry know they must respect permission, and can't engage in the spammy behavior of their predecessors. We predicted that a private right of action in civil court would be sufficient to keep those same marketers in line, and now we know that's correct -- but today, much of the spam volume is sent by career criminals and malicious hackers who won't stop until they're all rounded up and put in jail.
CAUCE Accepting New Members
CAUCE North America wishes to announce the launch of a new support program, now featuring many levels of individual and organizational membership for those wishing to actively assist with our important work and goals.
CAUCE actively advocates on behalf of consumers to governments, legislators, law enforcement agencies and industry associations about matters related to the blended threat of spam, viruses and spyware.
Whether you are an individual or an organization of any sort, please consider a CAUCE membership
