Spamming and scamming are increasing day by day; on an average, my mailbox welcomes about five mails a day claiming a lottery win, lucky ATM card, email winner and everything that can lure a common internet user.
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Internet is something which promotes “What’s Free Is Yours”. The system of “free” has boosted spamming and scamming on the web. “Free” mind people use the “free” stuff to cheat people and make money. Everything they need to build their empire is available for free on the web:
1. Free Hosting Services:
Web space is the basic requirement of a website and availability of web space for free is a boon for spammers.
Since, reputed hosting providers may block hosting of such sites it would cause a financial loss to the owner. Therefore, in most of the cases, free hosting is used to host sites meant for forgery and spamming.
2. Free / Cheap Domains:
Buying a domain is not a big deal; you can find a number of discount offers every day. Availability of free domains helps people minimize the expenses. Such sites generally use a domain similar to a reputed site.
3. Free Scripts
A large number of spamming/scamming sites require scripts to build dynamic content. Not everyone is a good developer and designer. But, as usual, one can find clone/site scripts for free. A number of forums and sites are dedicated to promote such kind of “free” stuff.
Mailing / bombing scripts are a good way to flood the victim’s inbox..!!
4. Free Content
Everyone knows content on web can’t be protected and this helps spammers spice up their sites. Almost all sites meant for forgery use content which is copied from the original sites.
5. Free Registration
Yes, it’s one of the reasons. No one needs to pay a fee to get registered on most of the sites. Spammers use these sites and forums extensively. They post links in their comments and signatures on forums, blogs, social networking sites, community pages, groups and every possible place which gives them an opportunity to write.
This was all that I could figure out. Was I charged for it? Was I paid? No..!! This is yet another “free” stuff. If you have something to add to the list, drop in a comment.
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