Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho ([identity profile] painoarvokas.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] hrj 2010-09-20 11:17 am (UTC)

The classic reason is that they try to boost the Google page rank of their pages. Many of my recent LJ spam has contained hidden links.

Another point is that spamming is cheap, and thus even a microscopic new-customers-per-spam ratio gives them good income.

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