Why Spam Lit
Initially, recipients of emails containing spam lit believed that the mails were a form of "keyword spamming".
A spammer often sends one spam message to millions of mailboxes, and if only a tiny fraction of the recipients purchase the products sold by the spammer, in percentage terms a large number of purchases and hence profit are made. On these grounds alone, it would be worthwhile for a spammer to create email texts from random literary texts.
However, Spam Lit exists primarily for a more insidious reason: to circumvent the powerful spam filters developed by major email providers such as Google, Yahoo, AOL. These spam filters recognize the characteristics of typical spam messages and automatically delete them.
To circumvent spam filtering, the spammer creates a Spam Lit e-mail, which might include an image (which the spam bots cannot detect) with the product name, the Spam Lit text, and a link, which directs the recipient to the spammer's choice of website.
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