OT: question about the spam

[flyingbullseye]

Ok a serious question about the spamming, nothing about what we should do to them or anything like the last thread we had (was kind of humorous though ).

Anyway. What really is the purpose of spamming a forum such as this? Are there people really stupid enough to not only click on the link but hand over a credit card number for whatever is on the other side of that link? It should be well known by now that most of those links lead to either viruses, trojans and or other malware so what's the point? Is it just to cause problems or do this somehow generate income? I guess its just me but seems kind of stupid.

Flyingbullseye