How do some businesses profit being promoted by spammers?

Generally they are not companies, they are facades that take your credit card info and never ship anything. Or some actually do ship product so it is not as suspicious and months later start racking up credit card charges.

 

Countries like NK, China, Iran, even the U.S, hack, sell, buy private info for their own interests.

DMVs collect, sell your personal info, make money at it, w/o informing you.

Welcome to the cyberwar.

DBCassidy

 

Countries get info for different purposes. They aren't sending out spam as a nation.

DMV's or your mortgage company and all of them sell your info if you let them. They do let you know, you just have to read the fine print. If you don't read, then sure it could be without being informed. But in the thousands of pages that was my mortgage there was a small two sentences on the right for them to sell my address and personal details to snail mail spammers essentially. And 2 months after getting the mortgage, I got mail spam for the first time. It was expected.

 

Many legitimate companies try to raise their company search hits by teaming up with an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company which promises to increase their web profile visibility on the net. Only problem is many of the SEO companies go rogue with spam, and many even on post on forums just like this one, which you may never see because the mods and admins eliminate it and ban the spammers quickly. The business that hires them might not ever know what crap the SEO company does to actually dirty the name of the company by spamming.

 

We're getting:

1. "Do you know your VA loan interest rate?" - blind calls
2. "Your business needs our credit card processing service." - blind calls
3. "We are running out of 2003-2010 Prius to sell." - postal mail
4. " Bob here" . . . "Can I speak to Robert Wilson?" . . . "Yes, that is me." - foreign accent 'business opportunity' to 'schedule an appointment at your business address.'
5. "Conducting a medical study." - blind call on cell phone

Thieves by phone and junk mail.

Bob Wilson

 

"Please stay on the line, your call is important to us. All of our operators are currently busy. Your call maybe monitored by a supervisor. You are next in line" - Yeah Right!!!

DBCassidy