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May b they are paid by the product makers to send their ads in spam mails!!

the spam emails are usually advertisement - so the spammers get free advertisement and reach millions of people. it saves them lots of money.

And there is typically a 2% idiot rating - those who buy something via spam. That's a lot of sales.

There is also a 2(ish)% real idiot rating - those who click on the I don't want anymore of these emails links. This moves the email address to an extremely valuable database of stupid people with live email addresses. And that is worth mega-bucks

yeah, without such ppl the world would be very boring though!

Except they weren't trying to sell anything

In that case it was probably a scam

about 70% of the spam I get is from "girls" desiring to "meet" me, claiming they "know" me... of course there is link, that leads to either sex sites or something like that. if what you got contains no link, then it's really weird.

by the way, be aware that your personal details are known to any website like yahoo, hotmail or any shopping website assuming you gave your details when you created your email account and when you buy things online. and those websites usually sell email addresses, they get good money from that after all... yahoo even have the nerves to say it in public:
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/
note, that "business partner" can mean any low level spammer that pay them enough money.

I get 5 porn emails a day on my old email with no veiwable way to stop it happening and its from different addresses each time but obviously from the same spammer.
Haven't had such problems with my new email

Here's what I do

My ISP allows unlimited email addresses at my subdomain....
When I have to give my email address at a site, I use
sitename@mysubdomain.isp and I also opt out of receiving any offers,
or emails from the company or any of their carefully selected partners (People
who will pay for the addresses).

Then if I get any spam to that address, I know who sold it, so I whinge.
A lot. I have even threatened one company with legal action. Oh any ANY
email to that address is classified as spam, so I stop seeing it anyway.

The whinging and threats of legal action probably don't help, but they make
me feel better. And that's whats's important.

i do get spam mails on my yahoo and hotmail accounts on daily basis.
but now i just dont care and delete them....... coz i know they wont stop coming