Initially the internet was never intended for money-making ventures. This means that there was no outgoing commercial email activity. There was essentially no such thing as spam emails. The history of spam can be traced back to a British comedy act known as "Monty Python". This features a man and a woman who are in a restaurant, attempting to order something that does not contain spam. While they were doing so, the Vikings sing a song with the word “spam” repeated a countless number of times. This is how the word came into the limelight. The word was picked up by Usenet readers to refer to any unwanted postings as "spam". Soon, everyone began to use this word in referring to all the unsolicited emails that bombarded their inbox.
It is believed that the very first email was written at the time when the internet was known as 'Arpanet'. This mail was sent by an employee of the Digital Equipment Corporation. The email was forwarded to everyone who used Arpanet. It was in 1986 that a man named Dave Rhodes sent a spam email to a newsgroup known as Usenet. It is believed that many people even sent their money to Dave Rhodes only to get nothing in return. In 1993 a man called Richard Depew ended up mistakenly posting 200 messages. This was the very first case of messages being labeled as "spam". In the very next year two persons with the surnames Siegel and Cantor sent 6000 spam emails.
Today, the scenario is much worse, with more than 100 million spam emails being sent everyday. It has been reported that almost 85% of emails are spam and the numbers are only increasing. You can get spammed rather easily if you have sign up for something online. Most businesses keep customer email addresses. Some might sell the addresses to a third party to make a quick buck. This results in the flooding of your inbox with unwanted mails.
Spam emails are more commonly known as Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE). The term Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) is also used. People who are in MLM (mult-level marketing) as well as the adult industry are the ones who send the most mails as distribution costs them very little. The pharmaceuticals industry has also taken a liking to email spamming. They send the emails by getting hold of mailing lists from other sources. Apart from this there are also computer programs available known as random address generators that simply "guess" the email addresses and send emails to them.
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