{"id":13389,"date":"2024-02-18T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/does-spam-email-actually-work\/"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T13:38:00","slug":"does-spam-email-actually-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/does-spam-email-actually-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Does spam email actually work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts<\/p>\n<p>Does spam email actually work? I don\u2019t mean dodgy phishing emails, but the annoying ads and sales pitches. Presumably the answer is yes, otherwise the spammers wouldn\u2019t bother, but I find it hard to believe. <em>Ali Farhan, Manchester<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to <\/em><strong><a href=\"mailto:nq@theguardian.com\">nq@theguardian.com<\/a><\/strong><em>. A selection will be published next Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/feb\/18\/does-spam-email-actually-work\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/69dfdf966859d8b027541c8d824bf6b3ff8b2e8c\/0_0_4512_2707\/master\/4512.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=00d985fc748af63b7f3eacc04d685a8b\" title=\"Does spam email actually work?\" \/>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts<br \/>\nDoes spam email actually work? I don\u2019t mean dodgy phishing emails, but the annoying ads and sales pitches. Presumably the answer is yes, otherwise the spammers wouldn\u2019t bother, but I find it hard to believe. Ali Farhan, Manchester<br \/>\nPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The long-running series in which readers answer other readers\u2019 questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Does spam email actually work? I don\u2019t mean dodgy phishing emails, but the annoying ads and sales pitches. Presumably the answer is yes, otherwise the spammers wouldn\u2019t bother, but I find &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/18\/does-spam-email-actually-work\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does spam email actually work?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":13390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}