Just read an article about PDF Spam over at Comtech News and let me say it has me thinking even doing a bit a chin scratching!  You see what is being proposed is that spam filtering companies or software developers are not only behind the new PDF Spam but behind much of the spam we see, here is an excerpt from the article…

“See here is the thing, I actually think most spam is being sent to create a market for email filtering programs this is just the latest one!  Do you really think anyone is buying a Penis Patch because a spammer tell them, “your wifes says your weenie is teenie”?  Seriously there are real spammers who spam millions of people a day but some of the stuff you get you just look at and go, “what”.

Could it be much of the spam we see is nothing but “legitimate companies” making their market bigger?  I believe so and I certainly believe that is the case with PDF spam”.

Well it does some possible to me and even probable!  Why not?  If you programed solutions for spam or were a full fledged software company do you not benefit from more spam, harder to stop spam and from lots of “buzz” around spam?  Sure you do!  Given how totally unregulated and unpoliced the market place for such services and software is I don’t think it isn’t reasonable to think that at least some of the people selling the solutions are part of the problem.

~ TechFan

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