I am constantly blown away by how much spam I get in my inbox. Does this crap really work? Do people really fall for that scheme where a long lost friend has millions of Nigerian dollars that they can’t get out of the country? But, if you send them a couple of hundred to grease the wheels of bureaucracy they can magically get it out to split it with you.
The sad part is that I guess it does work. Or, why else would spammers still send out their garbage? Obviously someone’s falling for it. If you send out millions of e-mails, you could make a nice comfortable living if just five people a month fell for it. The Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) estimates that over 100 million spam e-mails are sent touting stock tips, penny stocks, and other securities schemes.
I actually bought prescriptions from New Zealand one time while I was in college. Who knows if I got the real pharmaceutical grade medicine, but my experience ordering it through a random spam e-mail actually wasn’t too bad. *** Please do not think that I would recommend doing it again though. ***
But, is there anything of value in spam? Have you ever bought anything off of a spam e-mail? I’d love to hear anyone’s experiences.
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