Junk emails

A1: Junk email (aka "Spam") means different things to different people. Generally, "true" junk emails have 3 components:
1 - they are unsolicited
2 - they are commercially oriented (intended to make money for somebody)
3 - broadcast to an unfocused audience (this means the sender simplhy bought a list of email addresses and hit "send")

Typical junk emails are "pyramid" schemes, "get rich quick" ploys and other untargeted CRAP.

One of the many under-rated problems with these things is that they are often irrelevant to the recipient. For example, I am often getting crap email about some tax benefit or something encouraging me to take up something with my congressman. "Hey wingnut, I don't bloody live in the U.S.A.! And neither do more than half the people on the 'Net! Idiot!"

A2: If you don't know WHAT it is, WHY do you want to know HOW to send it?

A2 (corollary): Don't bother!

A3: Yes, absolutely!

Junk email is just like the paper junk mail you get through the post.

Primarily it is characterised by being a non-personal email sent not directly to you but as part of a wide distribution list. However, nowadays even that is changing in that the TO address does often appear to be just you.
If you want some examples, make a posting to one of the sexually orientated usenet newsgroups and then sit back and enjoy all the new friends you suddenly acquire trying to tell you about their new sex sites that have appeared.

How do you do it? Unfortunately too easily nowadays, just need to get your hands on a mailing list from somewhere - just like the paper based boys do.

Can you be traced? Well depends what your junk email says. If it says come and buy your socks online at hanan1981Mart.com then maybe yes its fairly easy. But usually its not hard to trace if you really want to make the effort.

I would be interested to know the reason behind the question.

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