…are the spammers going broke, or are there enough people out there who will a) take a drug OF ANY KIND provided by a spam sollicitation? Besides the usual, there are people out there offering fake vaccines, etc. b) get a mortgage from an online sollicitation c)write to people offering endangered purebred puppies or millions of Nigerian dollars d) buy a watch from a guy with watches lining his overcoat—or offering facsimiles of Swiss watches via spam. e) believe the lady who has been dying for at least the last 4 years and who wants to give you money with religious blessings….or f) earn easy money from real estate (tried to sell a house lately?) and g) earn money with your computer at home (become a spammer yourself).<\/p>\n
I do wish there was an internet stamp you could get that replies to each of these: “I am certified not a fool.”<\/p>\n
But then the\u00a0traffic would probably crash the internet.<\/p>\n
I sincerely doubt the people who are actually fingering the keyboards get much: the spam kings have their ways of soaking it all up (they nabbed one of the biggest lately)—but it’s also possible to visit a site and get your computer hijacked, so that during the off hours, your computer is busily sending out a flood of spam. I know a person this happened to, and when he complained about his account being closed, the internet provider asked him: “Do you have a teenager in the house?” Apparently one of the most infected sites appeals to teens, particularly young teens. He got it straightened out. But in the meanwhile, he’d been sending a lot of spam.<\/p>\n
I so hate that stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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