My Gmail spam mailbox regularly fills up with "incredible offers" to enlarge my penis, sell me a Rolex or make me a millionaire. The penis enlargement e-mails are the ones I find the funniest, with fantastic subject lines like "Turn your small knob into a huge meat stick!" and "Become a real man increase your male aggregate".
The thing is, it's not free to send these e-mails out, and the costs mount up with the volume that is being sent out. This means that someone out there is actually responding to these e-mails and buying stuff from them.
Now, I don't believe I know a single person who is actually stupid enough to fall for these things, so I'm thinking that the number of responders out there is pretty low. Does this mean that out there somewhere is a guy with an arm load of fake Rolex watches, a dick the size of a cruise missile (or more likely a babies little finger, 'cos the stuff you buy is highly unlikely to work) and a handful of money transfer orders to send a couple of grand to Nigeria?
If it's you dear reader than for pity's sake, STOP! You're only encouraging them.
And while we're on the subject, stop forwarding on e-mails that say something bad will happen if you don't forward it, but something good will happen if you do. Also Facebook posts that say things like "Forward this and see what happens". Nothing is going to happen.
Thank you.
1 comments:
Oh yes, SPAM is very annoying. Helps to have two e-mails, one for junk use and another for proper correspondance.
BTW nice to see someone spelling e-mail with the hypen. The use of "email" is one of my pet hates. Technically, this should be pronounced "emmail". Blech.
Rod
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