by Lili Bell Raye

Created on: May 25, 2009

SPAM.......Didn't that used to be a sandwich meat....in a can?

Naw...I must be remembering incorrectly. I now know it to be a NUISANCE!

I love email. I love the Internet. But I find the more I use it, even though I never visit "questionable" sites, I receive more SPAM. This is infuriating, as I try to keep my email addresses (I have four!) clean and efficient. I try not to junk them up, or to allow messages to build up without moving them to appropriate folders or hitting the delete button.

There are two forms of SPAM I hate the most. One is the ones that have uk in the address and also have words in the subject matter such as "re your inheritance, or "your ATM payment'. When you make the mistake of opening these up, it is always someone from another country, with very bad English, stating you have inherited millions, and the sender is a barrister in England or from the Bank of Nigeria, etc., etc., etc. Now, it's bad enough that you KNOW this is SPAM, but that they are trying to pull you into a money scam of some kind, and then don't even know enough to make sure their English is correct!Why would I even consider responding to someone who is supposedly "official", yet doesn't take the time to make sure they appear so? Sad, sad, sad.

But the one that gets me the most is the one for men's drugs. You know, Viagra, Cialys, etc. Even products that claim to improve a man's size! Sorry, folks, but I'm a woman, and certainly not interested! Send me something to make me prettier, or younger looking, or to lose weight, but don't send me men's products! All of my email addresses are decidedly feminine in name or sound, so you know these SPAMMERS are not paying attention. They are just mass SPAMMING, and hoping to get someone stupid who will say, "Wow, I can be THIS BIG!", or "Wait till my man tries this stuff!" Come on now, I mean, is the emailing public that stupid? I don't think so!Or maybe I could be wrong? Please say NO!

At any rate, I do get a kick out of SPAM. Even though it drives me crazy, I have to laugh at these idiots who actually think they can make a buck off of someone's stupidity. Now, there are some SPAM messages that are high tech, and interesting, and very informative. But that just makes it even more sorry, that these people don't use their ingenuity to do true marketing processes to promote their business/agendas, rather than being lazy and employing SPAMMING techniques. I have an Internet business, and I pick and choose and carefully research those who will receive my emails. I choose those who may truly need my services, not just ANYBODY! Hello!

I guess the really sad part is the OTHER idiots who FALL for these SPAMMERS! And I know, from hearing the statistics and the stories, that people really do open, read, and respond to some of these schemers. Sometimes they are inviting in a virus; other times, they are giving their personal information, and either losing money, experiencing ID theft, or even becoming true victims of violent crime. To these people I say...I D I O T! There is enough information and warnings in the media telling us of the dangers that you should never think twice about opening one of these SPAM emails, let alone respond to it!

I guess some folks just don't get enough real email to satisfy them. Maybe for them, those who don't have alot of email contacts, SPAM is a blessing! They got an email! Whoopee! So I wonder, do they answer them all back? Do they add them to contacts, and that way they fill up their address books with their new "friends"?

Can I sell anyone a bridge I own in Brooklyn? Or maybe some beach home site in Arizona?Can I be your new SPAM friend?

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