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Spam lit (also known as lit spam and literary spam) is defined as snippets of nonsensical verse and prose embedded in spam e-mail messages. Some of the snippets are original content, others are passages from public-domain works (such as Edgar Allan Poe and The Bible), and others are conglomerations of several creative public-domain works, which are often copied from the internet. Spam lit is included in spam emails selling or purporting to sell a products such as software, male enhancement pills, and computers. ==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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spam Lit」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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